Re: Building .so files only.

[Tom Howard]

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 16:48, Tom Howard wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 16:21, Stephen Torri wrote:
> > I am trying to build libraries that will act as modules in a program. At
> > present when I do a compile its building .la, .so, .so.0.0 and .so.0.0.0
> > files. I am looking for advice on how to setup my Makefile.am file so
> > that all I get installed is a .so file. Ideas?
> >
> > My intention is to search a subdirectory and load modules as required
> > into memory. I would like to not have to put into the source code things
> > for sorting out which files to load and which to ignore. I would like to
> > utilize as much as I can from the development sources like automake
> > before requiring source code to handle this problem.
>
> I'm not an expert so make sure you have a look at the other responses.
>  They way I handles this in my project was to install the modules into the
> pkglibdir and then had a post installation hook that would create a
> symbolic link within the module directory to the .la file.

Here are the rules I use to achive this:

MODULES: xyz.la abc.la

MODULEDIR: modules

install-exec-hook:
        @if ! test -d $(datadir); then rm -f $(datadir); mkdir $(datadir); fi 
        @if ! test -d $(pkgdatadir); then rm -f $(pkgdatadir); mkdir 
$(pkgdatadir); 
fi 
        @if ! test -d $(MODULEDIR); then rm -f $(MODULEDIR); mkdir 
$(MODULEDIR); fi 
        @list='$(MODULES)'; for p in $$list; do \
          if test -f $(pkglibdir)/$$p; then \
                ln -sf $(pkglibdir)/$$p $(MODULEDIR)/$$p; \
          fi; \
        done

uninstall-local:
        @list='$(MODULES)'; for p in $$list; do \
          rm -f $(MODULEDIR)/$$p; \
        done


pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = \
ANY_OTHER_LIBS_PKGLIBS \
$(MODULES) 

This will cause xyz.la and abc.la to be installed/uninstalled into/from 
$(pkgdatadir)/modules.

HTH

-- 
Tom Howard