Re: What's with this lib suffix?

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Thomas Hallgren wrote:
>   
>>   # Default shlib naming convention used by the majority of platforms
>>   shlib        =
>> lib$(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX).$(SO_MAJOR_VERSION).$(SO_MINOR_VERSION)
>> shlib_major    = lib$(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX).$(SO_MAJOR_VERSION)
>>   shlib_bare    = lib$(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX)
>>
>> and sure enough, that's what gets used too. So what goes?
>>     
>
> You are confusing the naming convention for shared libraries that are 
> intended to be linked into programs (or other libraries) at build time, 
> which normally have to be named libsomething.so because that is what 
> the compiler/linker flag -lsomething resolves to, with the naming 
> convention for shared libraries that are intended to be loaded at 
> run-time (sometimes called plug-ins), which require no particular 
> naming.
>
>   
In that case, I'd appreciate some advice on how to use the pgxs package 
to compile a 'plug-in'. Looks to me it's only designed to compile 
'shared libraries'.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren