libjvm missing .so version number

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Mon Nov 27 18:29:00 GMT 2006


>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> writes:

Jack> Okay. One last question...if we only dlopen libjvm and the other
Jack> shared libraries created there and never directly link them in,
Jack> why are we bothering to create static versions? On Darwin PPC,
Jack> I end up with both a libjvm.dylib and a libjvm.a. Shouldn't we
Jack> kill off the static lib builds for that those libraries?

I'm sure we only do it because it is the simplest thing to do.
I don't think it is easy to make a single library in a package
dynamic-only using automake+libtool.

Tom



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