disable dynamic linking on mips for now (broken)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 69ca21f..6daa5b3 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -275,6 +275,11 @@
 shared=no
 }
 
+test "$ARCH" = "mips" && {
+printf "warning: disabling dynamic linking support on mips (not yet supported)\n"
+shared=no
+}
+
 
 printf "creating config.mak... "