In the INSTALL file for 21.2.8, there is the following paragraph.
The `--dynamic' option specifies that configure should try to link
emacs dynamically rather than statically.
The word emacs should be changed to XEmacs.
Also, it would be helpful if this paragraph stated under which
circumstances this option is on by default. I've noticed that
on FreeBSD, most of the libraries seemed to be linked dynamically
even if this flag is not given.
This seems odd, since the wording in this file concerning
--site-runtime-libraries seems to discourage dynamic linking of
libraries.
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Richard Coleman
coleman(a)math.gatech.edu