On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:02:12PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> > You're only providing a static libploticus.a. Doesn't ploticus also
>> > support building and linking against a shared lib?
>>
>> If only a static lib is supplied, it should probably go into a package
>> called "libploticus-devel" (along with the necessary header files), and
>> not "libploticus".
>>
>> This is because the static library (and .la libtool libs, and .dll.a
>> import libs) are only needed if developing a client application. They
>> are not needed at runtime.
>>
>> On the other hand, .dll files which are needed at runtime usually go
>> into packages named "lib{foo}" or "lib{foo}N".
>
>Maybe you're right. I don't have much experience with library packages and so
>overlooked this. Do others agree?
Yes. static libraries belong in a -devel package.
cgf
