I noticed that my programs were not linking with the shared libs. Apparently

if you say something like (from the dmapi tests stuff):

	gcc -g -O2 -o dm_handle dm_handle.o libdmtest.a -ldm -lhandle

it will link with whatever it finds in /usr/lib.  If there are no shared libs
there then it'll link with the static libs.  When I add a symlink to make
libdm.so and libhandle.so appear in /usr/lib then I am able to link to the
shared libs.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/builddefs.in b/include/builddefs.in
index 9d9946d..0ee8d1b 100644
--- a/include/builddefs.in
+++ b/include/builddefs.in
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ endif
 # Libtool thinks the static and shared libs should be in the same dir, so
 # make the static lib appear in the place we chose as rpath (using the two
 # symlinks below).
+# Other things want the shared libs to appear in /usr/lib, else they'll
+# link with the static libs there.  So, another symlink to get the .so into
+# /usr/lib.
 ifeq ($(ENABLE_SHARED),yes)
 INSTALL_LTLIB_DEV = \
 	cd $(TOPDIR)/$(LIBNAME)/.libs; \
@@ -143,7 +146,8 @@ INSTALL_LTLIB_DEV = \
 	../$(INSTALL) -m 755 -d $(PKG_SLIB_DIR); \
 	../$(INSTALL) -T so_base $(LIBNAME).lai $(PKG_SLIB_DIR); \
 	../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a $(PKG_SLIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a; \
-	../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la $(PKG_SLIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la
+	../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la $(PKG_SLIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la; \
+	../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_SLIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).so $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).so
 else
 INSTALL_LTLIB_DEV = $(INSTALL_LTLIB_STATIC)
 endif