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#
# which defines a Make variable definition inserted into Makefile.in
#
-# Finally, if a line has the literal form
-#
-# *shared*
-#
-# (that is including the '*' and '*' !) then the following modules will
-# not be included in the config.c file, nor in the list of objects to be
-# added to the library archive, and their linker options won't be added
-# to the linker options, but rules to create their .o files and their
-# shared libraries will still be added to the Makefile, and their
-# names will be collected in the Make variable SHAREDMODS. This is
-# used to build modules as shared libraries. (They must be installed
-# using "make sharedinstall".) (For compatibility, *noconfig* has the
-# same effect as *shared*.)
+# Finally, if a line contains just the word "*shared*" (without the
+# quotes but with the stars), then the following modules will not be
+# included in the config.c file, nor in the list of objects to be
+# added to the library archive, and their linker options won't be
+# added to the linker options, but rules to create their .o files and
+# their shared libraries will still be added to the Makefile, and
+# their names will be collected in the Make variable SHAREDMODS. This
+# is used to build modules as shared libraries. (They must be
+# installed using "make sharedinstall".) (For compatibility,
+# *noconfig* has the same effect as *shared*.)
# NOTE: As a standard policy, as many modules as can be supported by a
# platform should be present. The distribution comes with all modules