Re: how to build only the client libraries

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:02 PM +0000 shan kajendran 
<SKAJENDR@uk.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> I am in the process of upgrading OpenLDAP client libraries to 2.3.17. I
> have configured with  --disable-slapd --disable-slurpd option.
>
> When i run make command I am getting some liblber.la and libldap.la files,
> but in the old version of OpenLDAP we were using liblber.a and  libldap.a.
>
> So my questions are what is this .la stands for ?  and why I couldn't
> build with our client application? When we build our client application
> it is not recognising
>  liblber.la and  libldap.la as  valid library files.

".la" are files that contain linking information for the libraries.

".a" is a static library
".so" is a shared object library

Did you look in the .libs directory in your build tree to see if the 
libraries were built?

--Quanah

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