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Norman, >I'll be setting automake to produce both shareable and static libraries >in fact, simply because it's no harder than producing only static ones. There is a shell script for Solaris which is sourced to setup the current build to produce static libs, have you got this script? Do you need the script? Steve. -----Original Message----- From: Norman Gray [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 14 January 2004 15:24 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Library versions Peter, On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote: > > A few makefiles have a LIB_VERS value which is different from the > > PKG_VERS value. However, I can't see anywhere this is used, other than > > being edited into the dates file. There are at least some cases where > > the PKG_VERS and LIB_VERS are substantially different (SLALIB was where > > I noticed this, and it has 2.4-12 and 1.6 respectively). > since the point of LIB_VERS is to stop applications loading shareable > libraries that are younger than the ones used when it was built, we > clearly don't need this distinction any longer (since no new applications > and libraries will be produced without a complete rebuild, or is that > produced ever). So drop it. Delighted. > In actual fact this has been redundant (unused in fact) since we stopped > doing incremental updates and more-or-less stopped producing shareable > libraries. The only slight exception might be the libraries produced to > wrap ADAM applications, but I doubt this will be a problem for them. I'll be setting automake to produce both shareable and static libraries in fact, simply because it's no harder than producing only static ones. See you, Norman -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK [log in to unmask]