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Subject: Re: .la files for Apache DSOs
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From: Jeff Trawick <trawick@attglobal.net>
Date: 13 Dec 2001 21:14:55 -0500
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Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:00:12PM -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> > Does anybody actually *want* these installed into prefix/modules by
> > "make install" and "apxs -i"?
> > 
> > If so, please speak up.  I'd be curious about *why*.
> 
> I say "no". As modules, they aren't intended for further linking.
> 
> Note that we should probably be linking the modules with libtool's -module
> switch. It would be interesting to see if that prevents the installation of
> the .la file.

We already do link DSOs with -module, though we also throw on
-export-dynamic as well, which doesn't seem appropriate.

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