Hey, Most of that stuff is just pure autoconf, I'll take a closer look at your 2nd point and refresh my mind as I seem to remember we did some work on supporting custom namespacing.
I would like to know exactly what is failing for you regarding the build; would you happen to have the output from the shell or the configure log files. Thanks - Piotr ________________________________________ From: openexr-devel-bounces+pstanczyk=ilm....@nongnu.org [openexr-devel-bounces+pstanczyk=ilm....@nongnu.org] on behalf of Charles Flèche [charles.fle...@free.fr] Sent: 09 September 2013 14:26 To: openexr-devel@nongnu.org Subject: [Openexr-devel] .la and link to basename .so Hi, As the ./configure script doesn't allow me to build IlmBase and OpenEXR on the latest Ubuntu, I'm taking a look at improving the current CMake files. Here are a couple of questions about the build : 1. the build process yields a few .la files : libHalf.la, libIex.la, etc... My understanding is that these .la files are legacy files from libtool to help linking, but this mechanism should be replaced by proper package-config .pc files. As OpenEXR already build valid .pc files, are these .la files still useful ? https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/04/what-about-those-la-files 2. taking libIex : libIex-2_0.so.10 -> libIex-2_0.so.10.0.1 libIex-2_0.so.10.0.1 libIex.a libIex.la libIex.so -> libIex-2_0.so.10.0.1 Now I get that renaming libIex.so to libIex-2_0.so is probably to avoid symbol collisions while linking two versions of OpenEXR from the same process. However, I don't understand the libIex.so -> libIex-2_0.so.10.0.1 symbolic link. Why renaming libIex-2_0 to libIex ? Is it to avoid modifying the build systems of the applications linking against OpenEXR ? Why not : libIex-2_0.so.10 -> libIex-2_0.so.10.0.1 libIex-2_0.so.10.0.1 libIex-2_0.a libIex-2_0.la libIex-2_0.so -> libIex-2_0.so.10.0.1 I probably miss something, there... Many thanks, Charles _______________________________________________ Openexr-devel mailing list Openexr-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/openexr-devel _______________________________________________ Openexr-devel mailing list Openexr-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/openexr-devel
