[XviD-devel] 0.9.2 released and important fixes for MPEG4
compliance in other branches.
Edouard Gomez
ed.gomez at free.fr
Tue Jul 29 00:48:03 CEST 2003
Michael Nottebrock (michaelnottebrock at gmx.net) wrote:
> Unfortunately, that's quite unportable (to rely on ldconfig to do this). Many
> projects that build shared libraries use libtool, which automatically takes
> care of this in an appropiate way, depending on the system it detects (on
> FreeBSD, it would create the symlink during install). It will also respect
> other OS-dependent traditions of shared-library naming (not all systems can
> deal with libfoobar.so.x.y, but rather libfoobar.so.x only).
I don't rely on the only build process, packagers (ports, ebuilds, .deb
or .rpm) can also adapt software to their needs, i provide a very very
thin build process that is easily portable and not encumbered with that
automake/libtool/autoconf trio that imo is not that good for build
process.
> Given the fact that you want to use versioning anyway, plus the portable
> dlopening-feature that libtool provides (through libltdl, interesting for
> applications that want to dynamically load xvid as a plugin), using libtool
> for xvid might prove worthwhile, as it provides most of the stuff you need
> for shared libraries in one neat package.
Well, patches are welcome, if you don't make use of automake which is
really what i wanted to avoid because it generates Makefiles that are
not not compatible with the standard make in BSD systems or the make in
solaris/SunOS.
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Edouard Gomez
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