Re: Building .so files only.

[Stephen Torri]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 06:55, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2003, at 12:55 AM, Daniel Reed wrote:
> 
> > To produce only .la and .so files, you can pass -module -avoid-version 
> > to
> > libtool. In Automake, you can do this by using something similar to:
> >
> > pkglib_LTLIBRARIES = mymod.la
> > mymod_la_SOURCES = mymod.c
> >
> > mymod_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version
> >
> > This also removes the requirement that the library name start with 
> > "lib."
> 
> This may work on Linux, but on some platforms, this produces a very 
> different file from a library created without -module.
> 
> "modules" are meant to only be used as a plugin, ie dlopened or 
> something similar.  With the module flag, it's a plugin; without, it's 
> a shared library.
> 
> If you're using -module to make shared libs (that will get linked 
> against by other things), your project isn't portable.  ;)

So far I have the following for creating a 'plugin' module:

AC_TRY_CPPFLAGS("-Wall", wall="-Wall", wall="")
CXXFLAGS="-g $wall"
 
MODULE_LDFLAGS="-export-dynamic -module -avoid-version"

For example, a module called libFS.la (Filesystem module) will produce
libFS.la and libFS.so in the installation directory. The only way that I
know to only see libFS.so in the install directory is to place a script
in the Makefile.am to remove the libFS.la. Is this the correct method?

Stephen
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