Re: Way to install only shared libraries

[Stephen Torri]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 16:14, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> Stephen Torri <address@hidden> writes:
> > I am on a project that would like to only install shared library files
> > (.so) but not the .la files. I tried to put AC_DISABLED_STATIC  and then
> > AM_DISABLED_STATIC into the configure to do this. Neither declaration
> > worked. Is there a method for doing what we want?
> 
> There is no good method.  You could do any of these:
> 
> a) add:
> 
> install-exec-hook:
>       @list='$(lib_LTLIBRARIES)'; for p in $$list; do \
>         rm $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$$p; \
>       done

At present this is what is being done. I was just curious if there was a
cleaner method via a configure.ac file option.

> to your Makefile.am
> 
> b) override install-libLTLIBRARIES but that's uglier.
> 
> c) add an option to libtool to not install the .la file and then have
> you Makefile.am use that.

Option C looks better. What did you have in mind?

Stephen
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