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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: IMPORTANT: Library names.
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-31 19:36:30
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On Thursday 31 May 2001 12:17, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> 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.

Yes, we could have done that six months ago, but to switch now isn't worth 
the trouble.

Cheers,
Waldo
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bastian@kde.org | SuSE Labs KDE Developer | bastian@suse.com

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