[oe] RFC: Library file extensions

[Richard Purdie]

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:09 +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:21:16 +0000 Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
> > As some may have gathered I made some experiments with using Poky to
> > cross compile things to run on the iPodTouch which is
> > arm-apple-darwin. THe good news is they were successful however
> > Darwin creates some interesting challenges for OE, one of them is the
> > dynamic libraries being called *.dylib, not *.so.
> 
> The easiest way to account for would be to introduce something short
> like:
> 
> SO ?= "so"
> 
> But if, as look at the patch below shows, we need to actually account
> for cases like .so.<ver> vs .<ver>.dylib, then apparently it's the way
> to go.

Right, thats exactly the problem...

Cheers,

Richard