Stefan Teleman wrote:
> this can be changed in ./configure but:
>
> - it is a lot of work to change ./configure and configure.in.
> - it creates again a fork with patches which won't be accepted upstream
> - it will break 3rd party applications which still use libtool (and the
> *.la files), and which expect to find this collection of symlinks, and
> naming convention for shared libs.
With the Xorg libraries built using libtool we allow the configure/build to
generate the .so.x.y.z libraries, but the package prototypes only include
the .so.x paths in the packages. *.la files are deleted on sight during
the build, as they serve only to introduce more bugs.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
