Re: nm-pppd-plugin.so: strange build

["Tambet Ingo" <tambet gmail com>]

On Nov 5, 2007 2:11 AM, Michael Biebl <biebl debian org> wrote:
> looking at the NM 0.7 source, I noticed that the pppd plugin
> is built as executable (nm_pppd_plugin_PROGRAMS = nm-pppd-plugin.so)
> with a very strange *.so file ending and an attempt to transform it in
> some sort of shared object by using -shared and -fPIC.
>
> Why isn't lib_LTLIBRARIES used at first place for compiling the nm-pppd
> plugin? As it's a private plugin, pkglib_LTLIBRARIES would probably be
> even better.
>
> Could someone shed some light on this current odd situation of the pppd
> plugin?

The Makefile.am content is just copied from somewhere, most probably
from pptp vpn module. It doesn't really matter much since it's
currently not used by anything. Feel free to send patches to improve
it.

Tambet