Re: library name enforcement?

[Dale E Martin]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 10:52:54PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Older versions of automake allowed arbitrary library names.
> 
>   noinst_LIBRARIES = foo.a
> 
> Recent versions of automake now complain about this naming.
> 
>   Makefile.am:2: `foo.a' is not a standard library name
> 
> I would normally like the lib naming but in this case I am retrofiting
> an existing project and others disagree.
> 
> I searched the documentation but I could find no way to revert to the
> previous behavior.  Any hints?

Does this work?
foo_a_LDFLAGS=-module

Something very close to this works for libtool libraries.  I suppose it
could have other unintended effects, though.

Later,
        Dale
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