Request for review: glpk

[Quentin Spencer]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>On 7/26/05, Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee.org> wrote:
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>>One note about this package. The upstream sources do not provide for
>>building shared libraries. The maintainer has seemed somewhat
>>unresponsive to requests on the mailing list for this (and a lot of
>>other things), and I don't really have time or interest in maintaining
>>patches separate from the sources, so for now this is a static-only
>>library. I have put everything in glpk-devel, with the intention of
>>creating a glpk package in the future if shared libs are supported. This
>>library is not likely to be used by many applications, so for now I
>>don't see this as a problem.
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>The build process is actually building the shared objects... its just
>not installing them. It shouldn't be too hard to patch the make
>install control code to actually install the shared objects as well. 
>If i make a patch wll you use it?
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Yes. I would love to have shared libs. I just didn't look carefully 
enough at the build process to see that this was already happening.

-Quentin