netcdf .a location

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 22:12 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2005 21:15:37 +0200, Rudi Chiarito wrote:
> > I have looked for precedents. So far, netcdf's static libraries seem to
> > be unique. cyrus-sasl-devel does indeed place .a files in a
> > subdirectory, but they appear to be more like plugins. A more similar
> > scenario is libpng's. libpng-devel and libpng10-devel install these
> > files:
> > 
> > /usr/lib/libpng10.a
> > /usr/lib/libpng12.a
> > /usr/lib/libpng.a -> libpng12.a 
> > 
> > Should netcdf follow that example?
> 
> You mean, put the headers into a separate sub-directory like libpng10
> does it? ;)


Hi Rudy,

The history of the netCDF packaging efforts are archived for your
reading pleasure at:

  https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1874

My view is that the current arrangement is entirely usable (even if it
might be less-than-perfect) and I'm not at all interested in having
another "where-do-the-files-go" re-hash.  So, unless theres an actual
bug or a violation of Fedora Extras policies [which I trust Michael
would point out--hes very astute! ;-)], I'm in no hurry to shuffle
things around.

Ed

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