On 9/22/08, Jussi Pakkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, this looks quite sensible. Some things I noticed: > > Why do have the version number in lib dir?
Firstly, just in case. Secondly... do you know how AUR works? It is not some official repository. It is just a collection of users contributed PKGBUILDs. For instance, to install cuneiform you are to download PKGBUILD and run makepkg. It wil download sources, build them and make .pkg.tar.gz-- Arch package format. Only then you can install it as an ordinary package (: If some PKGBUILD from AUR takes enough votes, it moves to the official "community" repository. It makes able to install some app just via # pacman -S appname More info here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR So, I thought that it is better to keep libs in a versioned dir. To avoid conflicts and make able to have several version per same time (e.g. for debug). If my arguments is weak--say, I'll fix (: Anyway, that was my first PKGBUILD, guys. > I looked at /usr/lib on a > Debian machine and the subdirectories there only had the program name. > Parallel installing two versions of the same program to the same > prefix is probably just begging for trouble. As I sad, I found such solution useful only for a case of AUR. > Will there be problems with linking? In the future we may want to > offer Cuneiform as a library. Does this mean that the main shared > library (libpuma.so) has to be installed to /usr/lib? Or do we need > pkg-config magic to make it work propely? Does rpath take care of the > other libraries' symbols automatically? When cuneiform will be available as a standalone library, I'll put it in /usr/lib. For now it is a heap of highly tailored libs, I think. And keeping them in the such public place as /usr/lib is not good idea. Just my opinion. Correct me, please, if I'm wrong. The reason of such situation is simple---cuneiform comes from the world of Windows (: -- . Hoc est simplicissimum! ..: maxim.vuets.name _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cuneiform Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cuneiform More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
