#67 Build install doesn't install static libraries

[Chris Behrens]

When building the static libraries, it doesn't seem that 'Build install' actually installs the .a's.

When building as shared libraries, it _does_ install the .so's, however.

If you compare the difference between the install-libdkim: Makefile target, you'll see there's extra code to install the .so when building 'sharedlib' that doesn't exist when building 'library'

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Referred to the devtools guys at Sendmail.

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According to one of our devtools maintainers:

If you build shared libraries, the resulting binaries need the shared
library to run, hence it is installed. Static libraries are not needed
by the binaries, therefore not installed. Of course, you can override
this in your libdkim/Makefile.m4 with:

define(`bldINSTALLABLE', `true')

...inside the bldPRODUCT_START() section.

Ideally libdkim should be compiled but not installed unless you do "sh Build install" explicitly in the libdkim directory, because then you want the developer stuff installed on your system (the library and dkim.h). I'll see if that's workable with the current system.

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A hook to make the library installable via site.config.m4 has been added and will appear in the next version.

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v2.4.3, now released, contains a build-time option to deal with this.