Re: [Notion-devel] Shared vs. Static

[Jeff B. <jef...@gm...>]

On 01/18/2014 06:19 PM, Dima Kogan wrote:
> Ah. It all makes sense now. For some reason the debian -dev package
> doesn't contain libraries at all; just headers. This could be a mistake.
Originally I only included the headers. I ran into issues compiling 
ion-statusd against the -dev package, so I started including the .a 
files. Compiling anything in the official release tarball against a -dev 
package is probably not a good use case though.
> As for shared/dynamic, just making the libraries dynamic won't solve
> your problem. Libraries with names like "libmainloop" pollute the
> namespace too much for something that has a very narrow purpose (it's
> only for notion, not likely to be used by anything else in the system).
> So what one SHOULD do is to ship the DSOs in /usr/lib/notion, and do
> some sort of RPATH thing to let their users find these. Debian is OK
> with RPATHs for this purpose. Fedora like is too.
>
> If I were you, I'd punt on libnotion-dev for now, to let upstream handle
> this more nicely first.
>
> dima
Yeah, I think punting on the -dev package for the time being is a good 
idea. Particularly since it is probably a non-issue, at least for the 
time being.

Thanks!

Regards,
Jeff

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