Re: only installing shared versions of some libs

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

That's not the correct way to do that. Yes, libtool is a prerequisite and
you need -shared, but it should be in _LDFLAGS. But more importantly you
want -module and -avoid-version.

My Autotools Mythbuster guide has a section dedicated to building plugins:
https://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/libtool/plugins.html

Have fun.

Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
address@hidden — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Václav Zeman <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 10 December 2013 09:47, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've recently adapted a project to support DSO plugins/modules
> >
> > The existing project includes normal libraries and binaries.  In a
> > normal build, we want to
> >
> > a) build and install the shared and static versions of the normal
> libraries
> >
> > b) only install the shared versions of the plugins
> >
> > I don't mind whether static versions of the plugins are built (we don't
> > currently use them) but I would prefer that "make install" does not
> > install them
> >
> > Can anybody comment on the best way to do this?  The Makefile.am is
> > linked from here (repro/plugins/example/Makefile.am):
> >
> > http://list.resiprocate.org/archive/resiprocate-commit/msg07875.html
>
> This is completely untested suggestion:
>
> I am assuming you are using Libtool as well. Given the Libtool[1] and
> Automake manuals, I think it might be possible to do what you want by
> modifying libexample_la_CXXFLAGS (or similar appropriate) variable to
> add Libtool's -shared flag, which, I think, should/could do what you
> want.
>
> [1]:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Compile-mode.html#Compile-mode
> [2]:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Libtool-Flags.html
>
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> VZ
>
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