Re: where should the library go?

[Andreas Fester <Andreas.Fester@gmx.de>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:42:29AM +0200, Andreas Fester wrote:
>
> > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to package fortranposix as a debian package. The upstream is 
> > > available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fortranposix/
>
>
> > > After compiling it, I get a file called libfortranposix.so. I am 
> > > wondering whether this library should go into /usr/lib or 
> > > /usr/lib/fortranposix directory?
>
>
> > The library should go in /usr/lib.
>
>
> Only shared libraries that declare an SONAME and use ABI versioning
> belong in /usr/lib.  A library named /usr/lib/libfortranposix.so doesn't
> belong in /usr/lib unless it's a symlink to libfortranposix.so.<version>.

I implied that the final package will comply with this convention :-)

Regards,

	Andreas

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