Converting from .a to .so

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:36:52 +0100 Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr>
wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 11:26:36PM +0000, Paul wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there a safe way in the spec file to convert between a static and
> > shared lib so I can submit it (and feed back the need for shared
> > upstream) or so I need to mess with the makefile?
> 
> Next netcdf release will certainly ship dynamic libraries. In the
> mean time linking against the static netcdf libs should be the way to
> go.

Yes, and I'll update Extras to the new version shortly after its out of
beta (in a month or two, supposedly).

Also, the current netCDF static libs shipped in Extras are built with
-fPIC so you can use them to build other shared libs as is done with
NCO.

Ed

-- 
Edward H. Hill III, PhD  |  ed at eh3.com  |  http://eh3.com/
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