On Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2008, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 23:35, Thomas Koeller <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Thomas -- Thomas Koeller thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
