Bug#83669: Shared libraries

[Frank Belew <frb@ximian.com>]

On 03 Feb 2001 10:59:01 +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
> 
>     Brian> However, this exposes other issues, since the version of
>     Brian> *.la required depends on the version of the library
>     Brian> required, however only one copy of the *.la file can be
>     Brian> installed, while a number of different versions of the
>     Brian> shared library can be installed at the same time.
> 
> I have done a bit more research on this topic (further results still
> to come), and it seems that the *.la file won't be so much a problem
> as I originally though - just put it in the -dev package, and
> everything should be fine.
> 

--snip -- 
You have to watch this one. We've found that things like rep require the
la in the main package, not the dev
due to linking to libltdl. This one was somewhat hard to discover since
everyone always seems to have the
-dev package installed as well.


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Frank