On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 08:48:17AM +0200, Tommaso Moroni wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 08:13:42PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:31:03PM +0200, Tommaso Moroni wrote: > > > The program dact (http://www.rkeene.org/files/oss/dact/release/dact-0.8.39.tar.gz) > > > creates both a binary and a library. > > > What should I do when packaging this program? Should I package it as a library or > > > as a single binary? > > > > Anything that goes in /usr/lib directly must be in a package on its > > own. > > The program actually puts two of its libs in /usr/lib as well as in /usr/lib/dact, so > something like ./configure --libdir=/dev/null in debian/rules is a possible solution, as > the program uses the libraries in /usr/lib/dact. > > Is there a cleaner way to do it? No. If you don't need other packages to link against the libraries, just don't install them into /usr/lib. If you do, they must be in a package on their own. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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