Re: [xml] Warning: upcoming release

[Joel Reed <joelwreed comcast net>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:37:59PM -0400, Leonardo Boiko wrote:
> Joel Reed wrote:
> > I'm currently fighting with the auto* tools to get a .so built
> > without installing it (which i can't get automake/libtool to do).
> > noinst_LTLIBRARIES only seem to build .a's and .la's, not .so's.
>
> Not sure if I understood your question, but the shared libraries are 
> built in the ".libs" directory.
>
> If you want to link to built libraries without installing them, simply 
> link directly to the .la file in Makefile.am.  Libtool will do some 
> magic and replace your non-installed binaries with wrappers to use the 
> libraries in ".libs".

What I'm trying to do is build a libxslt testplugin (a dynamic shared library).
I'm not trying to link to a built library, but build a DSO that can
be used in the test harness W/O installing it (or if i have to installing
it somewhere in $(top_builddir).

jr