Matthieu Herrb wrote (in a message from Tuesday April 1)
 > Frank Liu wrote (in a message from Monday 31)
 >  > I am trying to enable building shared lib for libXau, but got
 >  > an error:
 >  > ...
 >  > gcc -o ./libXau.so.6.0~ -shared -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib
 >  > -Wl,-soname,libXau.so.6 AuDispose.o AuFileName.o AuGetAddr.o AuGetBest.o
 >  > AuLock.o AuRead.o AuUnlock.o AuWrite.o
 >  > + rm -f libXau.so.6
 >  > + ln -s libXau.so.6.0 libXau.so.6
 >  > + rm -f ../../exports/lib/libXau.so.6
 >  > + cd ../../exports/lib
 >  > /bin/sh: cd: /home/fliu/src/x/xc/exports/lib - No such file or directory
 >  > 
 >  > apparently nobody created the directory ../../exports/lib
 >  > 
 >  > I am wondering why I didn't get this error for building other
 >  > shared libs such as those default libs that have shared enabled?
 >  > 
 >  > Any ideas?
 > 
 > Looks like a bug in many *lib.rules configuration files. The
 > LinkBuildSonameLibrary() macro doesn't build the export/lib directory
 > first. (The LinkBuildLibrary() macro used by non-shared libs does). 
 > 
 > It currently works with other shared libraries because the 1st built
 > library is precisely libXau and its normally built non-shared only, so
 > its build rule will indeed create the export/lib directory.
 > 
 > If the 1st built library is shared and since the shared target appears
 > 1st in Library.tmpl,  the directory isn't created. 
 > 
 > This should be fixed. 

Better late then never. I just committed a fix for that. 

                                        Matthieu
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