Re: Customizing soname

2008-03-28 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 3/28/08, Peter O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -rpath is required for proper execution in many environments, the ability to change the soname is, as far as I can tell, not. Please present a more convincing argument. Hello Peter, I think that infrastructures such as libtool should

Re: Customizing soname

2008-03-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: I think that infrastructures such as libtool should allow customization of any attribute that affect the output. Of course there should be defaults but it should allow overriding to allow customization. This especially true when the customization is

Re: Customizing soname

2008-03-28 Thread Roumen Petrov
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On 3/28/08, Peter O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -rpath is required for proper execution in many environments, the ability to change the soname is, as far as I can tell, not. Please present a more convincing argument. Hello Peter, I think that infrastructures such

Re: Customizing soname

2008-03-28 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bob, Alon, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Your request is the first I can recall for supporting the ability to customize soname. There was an earlier, much more elaborate one, by Keith Packard, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/6213. And we never applied anything there

Re: Customizing soname

2008-03-28 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 3/28/08, Roumen Petrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You request is to change library name. So I could not understand what is related to SONAME. It came as a surprise to me to allow user(verdor) to change library name at configure time. It for generating a differnet module using automake. At

Re: Customizing soname

2008-03-28 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 3/28/08, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was an earlier, much more elaborate one, by Keith Packard, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/6213. I believed I am not the first one... :) Did not find this specific thread though. But... For each report you