[CMake] so lib symlinks
Michael Hertling
mhertling at online.de
Fri Nov 19 11:28:06 EST 2010
On 11/19/2010 02:35 PM, luxInteg wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am learning cmake. I practice using the "add_library comand" as shown
> below
>
>
> set(serial "1.2.3")
> add_library(testLIB SHARED testLIB.c)
> set_target_properties(testLIB PROPERTIES VERSION ${serial} SOVERSION 1)
> SET(CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR lib CACHE PATH "Output directory for libraries")
>
> the result is in the ~/lib directory after install is the following:-
>
> -----A----
> libtestLIB.so a symbolic-link to libtestLIB.so.1
> libtestLIB.so.1 a symbolic-link to libtestLIB.so.1.2.3
>
>
> which I think is the proper way according to this link.
> ( http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO.html ).
> However it seems some programs do not follow the symlinks as I had unable
> to open
> libtestLIB.so.1 in one instance.. [...]
What do you mean with "unable to open libtestLIB.so.1 in one instance"?
What happened exactly? Which messages do you get from which programs?
> [...] It is probably the rest of the libraries
> on my setup has are like so:-
>
> ---B----
> libtestLIB.so a symbolic-link to libtestLIB.so.1.2.3
> libtestLIB.so.1 a symbolic-link to libtestLIB.so.1.2.3
>
>
> So advice would be appreciated on how one uses set_target_properties or
> shared libraies to get a setup as in ---B---.
Usually, it doesn't matter if the .so is linked to the soname'd library
- a link itself, also created by ldconfig - or the actual library file.
Regards,
Michael
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