[csw-maintainers] libtool, compiling shared lib

[Philip Brown]

Anyhone understand automake/libtool gobbldygook?

I'm trying to compile something. It's libtool infested.

I do a gmake. it builds something. but it only builds the libXXX.la
It doesnt build the SHARED LIBRARY libXXX.so.x.y.z

There are zero errors. it just doesnt build it. And I dont understand
which target, out of the 100 or so in the stupid
automake-generated-soup, to call for it.

It makes the damn symlinks, .libs/libXXX.so.4 -> libXXX.so.4.0.0

but no actual shared lib ? !!!

I've hit this in MULTIPLE software things now and am lost for words.