Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fixed installation path for 64-bit libvolume_id.so

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 00:41 +0200, Thomas Koeller wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2008, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 23:35, Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org> 
> wrote:
> > > When building with 'USE_STATIC = false' in the top level Makefile, which
> > > is the default, a shared library is generated which of course needs to be
> > > installed.
> >
> > It's a .a, which is a static lib, not a shared one which is obviously
> > installed by default. But still, why would someone need that "lib",
> > which is usually only build to create a static vol_id?
> 
> This is from extras/volume_id/lib/Makefile:
> 
> SHLIB = libvolume_id.so.$(SHLIB_CUR).$(SHLIB_REV).$(SHLIB_AGE)
> ...
> all: libvolume_id.a $(SHLIB) libvolume_id.pc
> 
> 
> As you can see, a shared libvolume_id.so is built, and this is what
> actually happens when invoking make with the Makefile unmodified. Try
> it if you don't believe me.

Sure, I obviously know what that Makefile does. :)

But in the patch, it's about the .a file, not the .so:
  > udev-120/extras/volume_id/lib/Makefile
  > +       $(INSTALL_LIB) -D libvolume_id.a

Kay