DJ, Not really the point of the patch, just an added benefit in my opinion. It also cleans up the Makefiles. Beyond that, by providing a shared library and header files for installation, hid plugins can be built without the whole source tree. Ubuntu and other distros can now have a pcb-dev package that allows hid plugins to be developed.
The real point of the patch was that I want to create swig bindings for pcb and libgeda in support of another geda subproject I'm working on. To do that I really need a library to build the bindings against. Admittedly, there is more work that needs to be done to properly separate the pcb executable from the libpcb library and provide some more API coherency. I'm willing to do that, and it may be better if I just host a git repository that can be pulled from as I make changes. (I think gmail hacked up the patches I submitted anyway). Jason On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:04 PM, DJ Delorie <d...@delorie.com> wrote: > > Do we really need all the complexity of libtool and shared libraries > just to avoid editing a file? > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user