Re: Are libtool .la files in non-dev library packages bugs?
>> Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> writes:
> Yes, and this breaks the whole idea of SONAMES. I wonder how such shit
> has ever been allowed to enter Debian.
Are we still talking about plug-ins here? I had that impression.
Say, how is a SONAME useful for a plugin? A plug-in is not something
you link directly into a program (that's the whole point of it), so it
has no bussiness living in any directory that the dynamic linker
searches. For the purposes of a plug-in, a namespace is as good a
soname. If you desing your plug-in system in any sensible way, the
user tells you "open foo" and your program will go looking for
/usr/lib/bar/plugin-foo.so or whatever naming scheme makes you happy.
The point is, you'll have your very own area where you can set up your
very own mess.
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