Building a self-contained shareable library

[Mark Rivers <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

Hi Janet,

I would like to build an EPICS shareable library on Linux that is self-contained, i.e. it does not depend on any other shareable library.  For example, with IDL I would like libezcaIDL.so to not depend on libca.so, libCom.so, libezca.so, and libEzcaScan.so.

One way to do this is to set SHARED_LIBRARIES=NO in base/os/CONFIG_SITE.linux...  Then EPICS will only build .a files for everything.  In ezca/src/Makefile I can set SHARED_LIBRARIES=YES.  That will force ezcaIDL.so to not depend on other .so files, since there aren't any.

But I am looking for a cleaner solution.  When EPICS is built with SHARED_LIBRARIES=YES it actually builds both .a and .so files for every library.  I would like a way to specify that ezcaIDL should be built as a .so file, but it should be linked with .a files for everything it depends on.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
Mark