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| author | Felix Geyer <fgeyer@debian.org> | 2015-08-20 12:13:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2015-08-20 14:45:09 (GMT) |
| commit | f799ffb5cb895855ac2aba54765622b81db5be38 (patch) | |
| tree | 211d48c7fa168fe7945939de227a396302e65dce /Help | |
| parent | 899458ab20876aeea915a59e9bfb459d92d264de (diff) | |
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Do not set SONAME for MODULE library targets (#15705)
The SONAME field is only useful for shared libraries that application
link against.
Diffstat (limited to 'Help')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/prop_tgt/NO_SONAME.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/modules-no-soname.rst | 7 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/NO_SONAME.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/NO_SONAME.rst index fc668b5..ee45ed8 100644 --- a/Help/prop_tgt/NO_SONAME.rst +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/NO_SONAME.rst @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ NO_SONAME --------- -Whether to set "soname" when linking a shared library or module. +Whether to set "soname" when linking a shared library. -Enable this boolean property if a generated shared library or module +Enable this boolean property if a generated shared library should not have "soname" set. Default is to set "soname" on all -shared libraries and modules as long as the platform supports it. +shared libraries as long as the platform supports it. Generally, use this property only for leaf private libraries or plugins. If you use it on normal shared libraries which other targets link against, on some platforms a linker will insert a full path to diff --git a/Help/release/dev/modules-no-soname.rst b/Help/release/dev/modules-no-soname.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8fe74f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/modules-no-soname.rst @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +modules-no-soname +----------------- + +* The ``SONAME`` field is no longer set for ``MODULE`` libraries + created with the :command:`add_library` command. ``MODULE`` + libraries are meant for explicit dynamic loading at runtime. + They cannot be linked so ``SONAME`` is not useful. |