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Re: [ITP] ploticus, libploticus, ploticus-common, ploticus-doc (revised)


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Sep 29 14:54, Schulman.Andrew-65bELFHSwm+NwwpopWmoRw@public.gmane.org wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/libploticus/setup.hint
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/libploticus/libploticus-2.32-1.tar.bz2

You're only providing a static libploticus.a.  Doesn't ploticus also
support building and linking against a shared lib?

If only a static lib is supplied, it should probably go into a package called "libploticus-devel" (along with the necessary header files), and not "libploticus".


This is because the static library (and .la libtool libs, and .dll.a import libs) are only needed if developing a client application. They are not needed at runtime.

On the other hand, .dll files which are needed at runtime usually go into packages named "lib{foo}" or "lib{foo}N".

--
Chuck


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