[Fink-devel] Q: convert lib*.a to lib*.dylib

2008-04-10 Thread Ben Abbott
It is has been suggested that the SuiteSparse static libraries be converted to dynamic libraries instead. Rather than attempt to modify the makefiles directly, I'd like to try to directly convert the static libraries to dynamic ones. My thought is to do something like # Extract the object

Re: [Fink-devel] Q: convert lib*.a to lib*.dylib

2008-04-10 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Ben Abbott wrote: It is has been suggested that the SuiteSparse static libraries be converted to dynamic libraries instead. Why are they static? Are they shared libraries on other platforms? Who suggested the change? Rather than attempt to modify the makefiles directly, I'd like to try to

Re: [Fink-devel] Q: convert lib*.a to lib*.dylib

2008-04-10 Thread Ben Abbott
On Apr 10, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Ben Abbott wrote: It is has been suggested that the SuiteSparse static libraries be converted to dynamic libraries instead. Why are they static? Are they shared libraries on other platforms? Who suggested the change? They are originally

Re: [Fink-devel] Q: convert lib*.a to lib*.dylib

2008-04-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Apr 10, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Ben Abbott wrote: It is has been suggested that the SuiteSparse static libraries be converted to dynamic libraries instead. Why are they static? Are they shared libraries on other platforms? Who suggested the change? They aren't static

Re: [Fink-devel] Q: convert lib*.a to lib*.dylib

2008-04-10 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Ben Abbott wrote: On Apr 10, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Ben Abbott wrote: It is has been suggested that the SuiteSparse static libraries be converted to dynamic libraries instead. Why are they static? Are they shared libraries on other platforms? Who suggested the change?

Re: [Fink-devel] Updated mplayer (#1885675)

2008-04-10 Thread James Bunton
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:17:08PM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: Following up: I've made a couple of changes on James' tracker item. It appeared to build OK as far as I could see. I'm cc'ing the current mplayer and libdvdnav maintainers Thanks Alexander. Those changes look good to me =)

Re: [Fink-devel] Q: convert lib*.a to lib*.dylib

2008-04-10 Thread Ben Abbott
On Apr 10, 2008, at 9:54 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Ben Abbott wrote: On Apr 10, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Ben Abbott wrote: It is has been suggested that the SuiteSparse static libraries be converted to dynamic libraries instead. Why are they static? Are they shared