Re: shared libraries and .so extension

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@debian.org>]

This one time, at band camp, Brian May wrote:
>libtool for some reason doesn't want to give the shard library the .so
>extension.
>
>Is this broken or some new standard?
>
>If it is broken, any ideas why?

I've seen that happen in a few tarballs with the Makefile created with
automake 1.4, and usually recreating the entire lot from scratch fixes
it -- I think it's a mismatch in the version of libtool and the version
of automake used but I never bothered to investigate it further.

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