Re: Naming C libraries
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:53:56PM +0200, Remi Vanicat wrote:
> 2005/10/3, Christian Stork <cstork@ics.uci.edu>:
...
> > In the case of Extlib, its C lib is installed in +extlib/extlib.a, ie
> > without the 'lib' prefix. Other OCaml libraries, such as Str, have the
> > 'lib' prefix. Shouldn't all packages be installed with this prefix?
> In fact there is no extlib C lib, the extlib.a you see is part of the
> native compiled extlib library. You can see in other library that for
> any .cmxa there is a .a with it.
Actually, that's what I meant (but I forgot that there is a C version of
Extlib which might have lead to the misunderstanding).
My question is: Shouldn't all these natively compiled libraries have
the 'lib' prefix so that gcc as invoked by the -custom option finds them?
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