Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
> : :     [lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic \/lib[^\/]+\.so\(\.[0-9]+\)*$']
> 
> : The ones I gave are very strict about the file extension, as they match
> : files the same way the linker does when searching for -l libraries.
> 

Oh yeah, I got the links and real library the wrong way round. What was
I thinking!

> ...making the final result:
> 
> changequote({, })
>   if echo __ELF__ | $CC -E - | grep __ELF__ > /dev/null; then
>     {lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic /lib[^/\.]\.so\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$'}
>   else
>     {lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic /lib[^/\.]\.so$'}
>   fi
> changequote([, ])
> 
> I didn't escape the / characters, but you can if you want (it's an egrep, so
> it's not needed in the current case), but the presence of \., to disallow
> periods, in the first [] is very important.  I also changed the [] around
> the statement -- because of changequote, these needed changing too(!).

OK. I'll have a play with this.

Nick
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