libtool in upstream makefiles
Hi,
I am trying to update a package. The author
has switched to libtool since the last release. It
is a nice number theory library, but no software depends
on it at this point. The makefile somehow just builds
a static libary, although I can't find a request to libtool
to build a static library.
Figuring out how to get libtool to build a static
lib and a shared lib does not look like fun. Before, I
added a target for shared libs and passed -fpic and put
in the proper soname. None of the scientific libraries
I have packaged do any of this.
How about just adding a couple of targets to do
static and shared the way I want; this would be very simple.
Do people typically do it this way ? Or should I try to
figure out libtool (It may aid in portability, but it
looks like a gross overkill to me) Or do you typically
work this out with author on a case by case basis ?
Thanks, John
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John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>, lapeyre@debian.org
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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