[m-dev.] issues with installing libraries

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 18 Sept 2024 at 23:41, Zoltan Somogyi <zoltan.somogyi at runbox.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:30:38 +1000, Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
> > > I have made a couple of small additions to the document for the sake
> > > of completeness.
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> Your diff adds .lib and .dylib to .a and .so, but actually, the install intrastructure
> (in make.library_install.m, at least) does not know *any* of those suffixes at all.
> It just deals with the values of the compiler options that specify the suffixes
> for static and dynamic libraries. It does not care what those values are;
> they could be one of those four, or they could be something else (such as .dll).
>
> Would replacing
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> .a      (for C grades, if --library-extension is .a)
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> with
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> .X      (for C grades, if --library-extension is .X)
>
> make this clearer?

Sure.

Julien.