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. ;)
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