Re: Cannot avoid libtool producing static library and la file for a plugin

[Stefan Kost]

Ralf Wildenhues schrieb:

> Hello Stefan,
>
> * Stefan Kost wrote on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:29:23PM CEST:
>   
>> I've installed 2.2.4. no idea why all my distributions still stick to
>> 1.5.26. I've installed libtool to /usr/local and bootstapped with
>> ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal" ./autoregen.sh
>>     
>
>   
>> Build works, but *.la and *.a files are still installed. Please let me
>> know, if there is something else I could try.
>>     
>
> FWIW, the *_LIBTOOLFLAGS requires Automake 1.10 or newer to work (but it
> works already with Libtool 1.5.x).  With this flag it will not install
> the static library.  It will still install the .la file, of course.
> There is little point in caring about that small file, with a plugin.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>   
it worked \o/. Thanks a lot.

Btw. is it really neccesary to run libtool --finish for plugins. This calls

"ldconfig -n /path/to/plugins" and print a lot of text that suggest users to 
eventually add the libdir to their LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which is definitely no what 
they should do.

Stefan