On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Ralf Wildenhues
<address@hidden> wrote:
Hello Gabriel,
please don't top-post, thanks.
* salsaman wrote on Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 01:33:17PM CET:
> Following your advice and using the -module flag has indeed removed the
> leading "lib" from the real library as required.
>
> However, in the installation directory I now see (for example):
>
> foo.a
foo.la foo.so
>
> First of all I only want the "foo.so" to be installed.
by adding --tag=disable-static to the link flags of foo.la.
There should be no need to skip foo.la; it's just a small text file that
helps libtool and hurts no one else.
OK.
> Second, I need to change the file extension in the install directory. In one
> directory, there should be no file extension (if possible), so "foo.so" is
> installed as just "foo". In a second directory (with a different
> Makefile.am) again only "bar.so" should be installed, however the file
> extension should be ".wo" so it ends up as "bar.wo"
Why? (serious question)
Because the spec. says so (serious answer).
> Of course, this needs to be done in a portable way.
That cannot be portable. Some systems cannot load modules if they don't
have some prescribed suffix.
If it cannot be done in a portable way then the spec must be changed.
Thanks again for your assistance. It is very much appreciated.
Gabriel.
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