[Live-devel] automake

[Erwin Rol]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 00:53 -0800, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> At 03:49 AM 2/23/2006, you wrote:
> >BTW: The reason i wanted .so libraries is to comply with the LGPL, which
> >as far as i understand it does not allow you to statically link a
> >executable
> 
> Although some people have interpreted the LGPL that way (admittedly, 
> the language in the LGPL is rather vague on this point), it has never 
> been my intention to restrict statically-linked applications.  

Maybe you could add a LICENSE file to the source code distribution which
explains your interpretation of the LGPL and that you allow static
linking. You know, just to have things on record :-) And to prevent
others from re-asking the same question in the future (if it already
wasn't a FAQ :-)


> (Note, for example, that the demo applications in "testProgs" end up being 
> statically linked.)  

Not when using automake ;-) Of course the libraries aren't found because
i didn't install them yet.

[erwin at xpc testProgs]$ ldd .libs/vobStreamer
        libliveMedia.0 => not found
        libgroupsock.0 => not found
        libUsageEnvironment.0 => not found
        libBasicUsageEnvironment.0 => not found
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x0000003a98100000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x0000003a95900000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0000003a97f00000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003a95600000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003a95400000)

- Erwin