autotools
Epic journey with statically and dynamically-linked libraries (.a, .so)
Dynamic libraries and PIC (position-independant code) are great features of modern systems. But trying to get the right library built can become a nightmare as soon as you rely on other libraries that may or may not have these features in the first place... In this post, I detail the hacks I made to the ./configure-based build system of Yices, a C++ library.