[Fedora-packaging] Re: LibtoolArchives, v0.3

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Jan 17 15:12:00 UTC 2007


rdieter at math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes:

>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/LibtoolArchives
>>> ...
>>> Comments?
>> 
>> | MUST: If .la libtool archives in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH2 cannot be excluded,
>> | they MUST be included in -devel (with associated .so symlink).
>> 
>> is wrong... it should be
>> 
>> | MUST: If .la libtool archives in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH cannot be excluded,
>> | they MUST be included in main-package but NOT in -devel.
>
> Huh?  .la libtool archives in LD_LIBRARY_PATH are those used for *linking*,
> so why not -devel?

E.g. /usr/lib/kde3/kded_kdeprintd.la contains

| dependency_libs=' ... /usr/lib/libkio.la ... '

--> /usr/lib/libkio.la is needed at runtime and must be in a main
package.

Saying that packager has to decide on a case-by-case base does not help;
e.g. when he ships 'libfoo.la' in -devel, a year later somebody else
might create a module with "dependency_libs='/usr/lib/libfoo.la'" which
would require 'libfoo.la' to be in a main-package.


A rule like

| MUST: a .la libtool archive MUST NOT list other .la archives in its
| 'dependency_libs' list

might be a solution, but I am not sure if this rule is complete.



Enrico




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