Re: finish mode needed for plugins?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Stefan, Bob, and sorry for the delay,

* Stefan Kost wrote on Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:15:18AM CEST:
> Bob Friesenhahn schrieb:
> > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Stefan Kost wrote:
> >
> >>>   Man pages are pretty useless in a situation like this.
> >> That was a start of doing some research.
> >
> > Definitely a good start.  Installing the modules faster would surely
> > be a blessing.  My package has about 100 of them.
> >
> Any ideas how to progess? I will post an article on my blog about it.
> Lets see if there is some feedback.

Two data points: First, I think one plain reason for running finish_cmds
may be simply that some people misuse modules also as libraries to link
against.

Second, the next Automake release will install several files at once;
AFAICS that means ldconfig will also be run a lot less often then, and
while not solving this issue, likely making it far less problematic in
practice, no?

Thanks,
Ralf