xpaint was compiling and installing a shared library but it was not using it, linking with the static one instead This patch attempts to link with libxpaintrw.so instead So we can pass --disable-static to configure --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ xpaint_SOURCES = $(BASE_HDRS) $(BASE_SRCS) -xpaint_LDADD = xpaintrw/.libs/libxpaintrw.a @X_LIBS@ @X_LIBS_EXTRA@ +xpaint_LDADD = -Lxpaintrw/.libs -lxpaintrw @X_LIBS@ @X_LIBS_EXTRA@ docs: INSTALL README TODO ChangeLog .PHONY: