Choosing .so suffix during installation

maxmind / libmaxminddb

C library for the MaxMind DB file format

https://maxmind.github.io/libmaxminddb/

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Choosing .so suffix during installation #323

Closed katie-maher closed 11 months ago

katie-maher commented 11 months ago

Hi, I was just wondering, is there a way to choose the shared object suffix used on installation/configuration? When I run ./configure & make, I end up with a shared object "libmaxminddb.so.0.0.7". Ideally, I would like the suffix to match the package version - in my case "libmaxminddb.so.1.7.1". Is there an option to do this? P.S, I am running this on Ubuntu 20.04.

Thank you in advance :)

oschwald commented 11 months ago

No, this is not easily configurable, although you may be able to set it via some LDFLAGS options. I believe using the versioning this way is actually discouraged.