lib: Document --enable-shared configure switch

[cascardo/ovs.git] / INSTALL.md

diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
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@@ -166,6 +166,11 @@ Prerequisites section, follow the procedure below to build.
 
       `% ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var`
 
+   By default, static libraries are built and linked against. If you
+   want to use shared libraries instead:
+
+      % ./configure --enable-shared
+
    To use a specific C compiler for compiling Open vSwitch user
    programs, also specify it on the configure command line, like so: