Converting from .a to .so

[Horst H. von Brand]

Paul <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> The future versions of anjuta look like they're going to rely on using
> netCDF which I have just about packaged. The problem is that it uses
> static libs rather than shared ones.

Too bad.

> 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?

Nope.

A shared library /has/ to be position independent code (at least if it is
to make some sense having it shared), a static library normally isn't.
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