Apologies if this is off-topic.

I'm trying to build curl for a MIPS target, on a PC, with ./configure
--disable-static --disable-shared.

Basically I don't need the static library. (Building shared library
would be nice, but not really necessary since I can manage with a
static binary. However it doesn't do that either.) Despire passing
--disable-static, it _always_ build the static library. How can I
_really disable_ bulding the static library? The same arguments to
./configure work for the PC target, so there's clearly something I'm
missing...

I believe this would be the relevant output of ./configure:

<snip>

checking for mips-linux-gnu-ar... (cached) mips-linux-uclibc-ar
checking for mips-linux-gnu-ranlib... mips-linux-uclibc-ranlib
checking for mips-linux-gnu-strip... (cached) mips-linux-uclibc-strip
checking if mips-linux-uclibc-gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for mips-linux-uclibc-gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if mips-linux-uclibc-gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if mips-linux-uclibc-gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if mips-linux-uclibc-gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the mips-linux-uclibc-gcc linker (mips-linux-uclibc-gcc) supports shared libraries... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... unsupported
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
configure: creating libtool

</snip>

Thanks,
Sajith.

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