Re: OS-sympathetic installation (fwd)

2001-02-15 Thread Olly Betts
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexandre Oliva writes: >it's far easier to just install in a separate directory and have the >package manager collect them. This will work on *most* systems. On >some, it's necessary to have the libraries already installed in the >installation directory before yo

Re: Building shared libs as dynamically-loaded perl modules

2001-02-15 Thread Jeremy Slade
Alexandre Oliva writes: > On Feb 14, 2001, Jeremy Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It seems that what I really what is to create swigShapeUtils.sl > > using the original ../../lib/*.lo files build earlier (and used to > > create libShapeUtils.sl), rather than create swigShapeUtils.sl with >

Re: Building shared libs as dynamically-loaded perl modules

2001-02-15 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 15, 2001, Jeremy Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I understand it, a 'convenience' library is intended for two > things: a static convenience lib is for linking into a program > (therefore it contains the non-PIC objects, *.o), and a shared convenience > lib is for linking into anothe

Re: Building shared libs as dynamically-loaded perl modules

2001-02-15 Thread Brian May
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> And that's the catch. On some platforms, you just Alexandre> can't link static libraries into shared ones. Not even Alexandre> if they're PIC. Yuck. Alexandre> Convenience libraries, with the Alex