On Fri, 13 May 2005, Scott Davis wrote:

> I thought about that, but someone told me that merely doing a mv was not
> enough because there is some information about the library name and version
> (both of which we want to change) *inside* the shared library as well, and
> that the proper way to do it is to do it from start in the makefile.

Dan F already replied pointing out that mv is not enough.

I figure you could instead just run something like sed
's/libcurl/libwhatever/g' < lib/Makefile > lib/Makefile-new after you've ran
configure, and run make -f Makefile-new in the lib dir.

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