Fwd: Re: [MoM] ampl-netlib-solvers

Hi Andreas,

Just to check if you got my previous mail.

Thanks!

Best

AndreiR

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From: Andrei Rozanski rozanskide@gmail.com

Date: September 21, 2020 09:56:40

Subject: Re: [MoM] ampl-netlib-solvers

To: debian-med@lists.debian.org

Hi Andreas,

Many thanks for reaching out and sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

I was reading and trying to understand a bit more of the whole process.

I guess some of the steps on packaging are still not clear to me.

I have added d/ampl-netlib-solvers.links as Aaron has kindly suggested

(thanks Aaron!). (commit 1d6f7cabaf956738f7e6b7adafa24e9b53d66746)

Thanks,

Best

AndreiR

On 9/21/20 9:03 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:

Hi Andrei,

is the task to rename the *.a file to lib*.a clear? Do you have

any problem with this. (If its just spare time issue at your side

that's fine. I'm just checking whether you need more help.)

Kind regards

Andreas.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 06:10:50AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 03:51:50PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:

Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:

I: ampl-netlib-solvers: unstripped-static-library usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/amplsolver.a(asldate.o)

[...]

I have not seen this info before but considering the size of

usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/amplsolver.a I suspect all needed libraries

are statically linked which is what we do not want.

Not necessarily; the library may in fact simply be unstripped. In

particular, it looks like dh_strip covers static (*.a) libraries only

when their names start with the usual "lib" prefix. If you specifically

need an unprefixed name, I suppose it would work to install the library

as libamplsolver.a so that dh_strip will see it, and direct dh_link to

establish an unprefixed symlink. If you're using Debhelper level 13 or

higher, you can do so without touching debian/rules by simply listing

usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libamplsolver.a usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/amplsolver.a

in debian/ampl-netlib-solvers.links.

I admit that would have been my next suggestion to name the file lib*.a.

I did not expexted that this might solve the issue that the library

might be unstripped right now. Thanks a lot for the hint.

Making a shared version of this library might be a good idea regardless.

Definitely. It will be the next step.

Thanks a lot for your hints

Andreas.

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