I recently discovered that libraw under Unix builds to an archive file of .o's. This means Shotwell (the program we're developing here at Yorba) is statically linking with libraw.
Is there any work being done to make libraw build to a shared library, i.e. libraw.so? This would be a huge help, as it means we can tell users to upgrade their version of libraw without the need to recompile Shotwell.
I found out about LibRaw as Shotwell[1] has now started to use it. As I was compiling the lib for shotwell, I noticed that the Makefile is quite basic. As I'm using Gentoo Linux, which builds all packages from the source, automating the build of libraw with optional OpenMP and LCMS means quite a lot of sed etc. This got me thinking that maybe I could make the build system use the popular autotools and that way make building much more flexible and easier for other Linux users (and hopefully other OS users as well). At the same time I could learn about autotools too.
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