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Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
| On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Pavel Roskin wrote:
|
|>libhello-5.6.so is created in .libs, but libhello-5.6.a is not.  Neither
|>is it created during installation.
|>
|>The problem may be in pkg-config, but if so, I need very good arguments
|>why libtool doesn't use versioning for static libraries.
|>
|>My question is - is the lack of versioning for static libraries a
|>limitation of libtool or is a something that pkg-config should work
|>around?
|
|
| This sounds like a libtool bug to me.

Agreed.  I presume that because static libs do not have interface versions
encoded into their sonames like shared libs, the same ideom was blindly
carried over to the release version code.

I would be happy to apply a patch that fixes this shortcoming.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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