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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: IMPORTANT: Library names.
From:       Bernd Gehrmann <bernd () physik ! hu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2001-05-31 19:17:30
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On Thu, 31 May 2001, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>  
> NOTE: Files of the format xxxx.la are libtool files that describe the
> actual DSO. The DSO itself is usually named xxxx.so or libxxxx.so.
> Some platforms require that the name of a DSO starts with "lib". On
> those platforms xxxx.la and libxxxx.la both generate DSOs with the
> same name "libxxxx.so". Since this leads to problems you should never
> use both "xxxx.la" and "libxxxx.la" as names for DSOs!!

So why not use a naming convention that avoids conflicts in the
first place? For example, use libklm_<appname>.la instead of
<appname>.la and libkio_<protocol>.la instead of kio_<protocol>.la.

Bernd.

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