Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?
Sam Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 18:11 +0000, Paul Cager wrote:
>> On Mon, February 19, 2007 2:37 pm, Sam Morris wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:10:06 +0000, Paul Cager wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote:
>>>>> I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has
>>>>> split some of its functionality into a libnemiver-common library. The
>>>>> library is probably not very useful without nemiver itself being
>>>>> installed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it ok to avoid splitting out a separate libnemiver-common0 package,
>>>>> and
>>>>> instead ship the library file in the nemiver binary package?
>>>> I believe in this case it is OK to keep the library within the main
>>>> binary
>>>> package. You'll need to place the SOs in /usr/lib/$PACKAGE, of course.
>>> Hm, this sounds overly complicated--editing /etc/ld.so.conf in the
>>> maintainer scripts, etc. Why shouldn't I just provide a nemiver.shlibs
>>> file that points dpkg-shlibdeps at the nemiver package?
>> Sorry, I didn't make myself very clear. I meant you would place your SOs
>> in a subdirectory of /usr/lib, e.g.
>>
>> /usr/lib/nemiver/libnemiverXXXX.so
>>
>> I do not believe you would need to edit /etc/ld.so.conf for this (as it is
>> a private SO).
>
> Hm, I think I would have because nemiver is linked against the library:
>
> $ objdump -p /usr/bin/nemiver | grep nemiver
> /usr/bin/nemiver: file format elf32-i386
> NEEDED libnemivercommon.so.0
>
> Which is what Policy says should be done. I guess I could also do the
> whole LD_LIBRARY_PATH & wrapper script thing.
>
> What I really meant was whether I need to do it at all. IIRC devhelp
> used to also ship a library in /usr/lib, it simply shipped a shlibs file
> that pointed dpkg-shlibdeps to devhelp-dev.
>
Sorry, I sent my last reply directly to Sam, by accident. Here it is
back on the list...
When I packages afnix I created a /usr/lib/afnix and compiled with
-rpath=/usr/lib/afnix. But I'm strictly an amateur with shared libraries
- can anyone else comment?
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