Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Paul Elliott
On Monday, March 21, 2011 02:13:24 pm Paul Elliott wrote: > It seems dumb to have make install install a file only to have the distro > remove it, is there anyway to tell make install not to install it? I guess I should not do it that way because somebody might want to use the auto*tools setup

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 21:13, Paul Elliott wrote: > On Monday, March 21, 2011 12:51:11 pm Nick Bowler wrote: >> On 2011-03-21 10:52 -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: >> > According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines >> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines >> >> > .la files should not be

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2011-03-21 14:13 -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > On Monday, March 21, 2011 12:51:11 pm Nick Bowler wrote: > > Since Fedora has complete control over how packages are configured > > and installed, they can afford to make the necessary arrangements > > rendering the .la files unnecessary. [...] > Wel

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Paul Elliott
On Monday, March 21, 2011 12:51:11 pm Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2011-03-21 10:52 -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > > According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines > > > .la files should not be installed: > This is a task for the Fedora packagers, and

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On 03/21/2011 10:52 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines .la files should not be installed: Packaging Static Libraries How do I create a Makefile.am for a shared library so that make install will not install

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 17:52, Paul Elliott wrote: > According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines > > .la files should not be installed: >> Packaging Static Libraries >> >> Packages including libraries should exclude static libs as far as possib

Re: don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2011-03-21 10:52 -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines > > .la files should not be installed: This is a task for the Fedora packagers, and not for developers to bake into their makefiles. See below. > Ho

don't install .la do install .so

2011-03-21 Thread Paul Elliott
According to the Fedora Packaging:Guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines .la files should not be installed: > Packaging Static Libraries > > Packages including libraries should exclude static libs as far as possible > (eg by configuring with --disable-static). Static librar