[Log4cplus-devel] log4cplus SO file - forcing the SONAME header field

[Brice C. <Bri...@ce...>]

Hello,

I am compiling log4cplus from source on Red Hat enterprise 5 (CERN scientific linux) 32 and 64 bits.

The point is to package Log4cplus in my Java webstart project (to enable logging in a native C++ library).

The problem is that when I use the configure and make scripts, it produces a liblog4cplus-1.1.so.5 library file.

I really need the library file that ends with ".so"  - or Java webstart will not unpack it from the native library JAR package and add it to the library path.

Renaming the file to liblog4cplus-1.1.so does not work, because I link my own native library to log4cplus, and the liblog4cplus-1.1.so.5 file contains the SONAME set to "liblog4cplus-1.1.so.5" (so the linker will link to liblog4cplus-1.1.so but my own library expects liblog4cplus-1.1.so.5 to be present on the path).

Is there a "configure" option I can use to force the SONAME to liblog4cplus-1.1.so ?
Or can I strip the SONAME from the final library, thereby forcing the linker to link to the library file name liblog4cplus-1.1.so ?


Thanks,

Brice