Add STATICLINK config option to prefer static linking of tools

Makefile

@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ else
   $(info WARNING! Doxygen is not available. Will skip 'dox' target) 
 endif
 
-export
-
 # Build for distribution
 .PHONY: distro
 distro: shared tools $(DOC_TARGETS)
@@ -66,9 +64,15 @@ infer: clean
 	infer run -- make shared
 
 .PHONY: tools
-tools: SRC := tools
+tools: 
+	make -f tools.mk all
+
+# Link tools against the static or shared libs
+ifeq ($(STATICLINK),1)
+tools: static
+else
 tools: shared
-	make -f tools.mk
+endif
 
 # Remove intermediates
 .PHONY: clean

README.md

@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ prior to invoking `make`. The following build variables can be configured:
    system (e.g. under `/usr`) set `REDISX` to where the distribution can be found. The build will expect to find 
    `redisx.h` under `$(REDISX)/include` and `libredisx.so` / `libredisx.a` under `$(REDISX)/lib` or else in the 
    default `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
+
+ - `STATICLINK`: To prefer linking tools statically against `libsmax.a`. (It may still link dynamically if 
+   `libsmax.so` is also available.
 
 After configuring, you can simply run `make`, which will build the `shared` (`lib/libsmax.so[.1]`) and `static` 
 (`lib/libsmax.a`) libraries, local HTML documentation (provided `doxygen` is available), and performs static

tools.mk

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
+SRC := tools
+
 include config.mk
 
-LDFLAGS += -L$(LIB) -lsmax -lpopt
+LDFLAGS := -lm -lpopt -L$(LIB) -lsmax $(LDFLAGS)
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH := $(LIB):$(LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
 
+include build.mk
+
 # Top level make targets...
 all: $(BIN)/smaxValue $(BIN)/smaxWrite
-
-include build.mk