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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:00:49 +0100
From: Mladen Turk <mturk@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r745119 - /apr/apr/trunk/configure.in
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Joe Orton wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:15:53PM +0100, Mladen Turk wrote:
>> Joe Orton wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:27:34PM -0000, Mladen Turk wrote:
>>>> Author: mturk
>>>> Date: Tue Feb 17 15:27:33 2009
>>>> New Revision: 745119
>>>>
>>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=745119&view=rev
>>>> Log:
>>>> Add --disable-version option to configure.
>>>> This allows to create non versioned apr libs using libtool
>>> Why is this useful?   Joe
>>>
>> Like log says; for creating non versioned .so.
> 
> That doesn't tell me why it's useful, that tells me what it does.
>

I don't think the usage is relevant. It's up to user to
decide weather it will ship its application with embedded
apr or rely on a system one.

>> If packing the apr inside .jar for example (don't ask me why cause 
>> it's work-in-progress) symlinks are unsupported, ending up in 
>> duplicate file copies.
> 
> So you really need a hack to the configure script which introduces a new 
> way to break ABI compatibility with the standard build, just so you can 
> avoid copying some symlinks in an obtuse distribution mechanism?  I 
> don't see it.
> 

First of all it's not a hack.
It's a perfectly legitimate way how you can build a shared library.

Any other discussion would only lead to philosophical and
political rather then technical reasons.
It's off by default, and if you don't need it, don't use it.

Regards
-- 
^(TM)