build system: shared library is gone

[bertsky]

I believe that the recent improvements in the build system brought a major regression: make install does not (build and) install libtesseract.so anymore.

This is a huge problem for other software that wants to link to Tesseract (like tesserocr). Their build will fall back to the static library, but this can fail by not pulling in Tesseract's dependencies (like -llept), or by missing things like -fsanitize=address.

@stweil do you want me to give detailed error messages?

[stweil]

I cannot confirm this. This is what I just tested:

./autogen.sh clean
mkdir test
cd test
nohup ../configure
nohup make
make install prefix=$PWD/usr
ls -l usr/lib/
insgesamt 213396
-rw-r--r-- 1 debian debian 163296074 Dez  5 07:13 libtesseract.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 debian debian      1075 Dez  5 07:13 libtesseract.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 debian debian        21 Dez  5 07:13 libtesseract.so -> libtesseract.so.5.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 debian debian        21 Dez  5 07:13 libtesseract.so.5 -> libtesseract.so.5.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 debian debian  55202672 Dez  5 07:13 libtesseract.so.5.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 debian debian      4096 Dez  5 07:13 pkgconfig

[bertsky]

False alert – sorry!