Re: [Rdkit-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Install libraries in ${RDKit_LibDir}

[Greg L. <gre...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Gianluca Sforna <gi...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Greg Landrum <gre...@gm...> wrote:
>> sounds like a sensible layout to me, but I think /usr/lib/lib*.so
>> probably needs to be in the rdkit package. These shared libs are
>> needed by the python modules and will (probably) be needed by any
>> application that is built using the RDKit.
>
> The .so files providing python bindings are in the python-rdkit
> package; the versioned .so (lib*.so.something) are those required at
> runtime for stuff built against rdkit.
>
> At link time lib*.so files are used to actually perform the link, but
> those are not needed at runtime so they are kept with the headers,
> according to:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Devel_Packages
>
> I believe all distros have the same arrangement.

ok, sounds good.

>>
>>> I'm still considering whether splitting out Data from the latter
>>> package, but overall it is quite a good achievement
>>
>> Agreed. We'll need to think about dependencies (i.e. python-rdkit
>> depends on rdkit), but I guess that's easy.
>
> Yeah, that's easy and mostly automatic, I will just add a couple
> requures from -data and -docs for the main rdkit package.

what about the contents of Contrib and Projects? maybe an rdkit-extras
package for those? I'm not sure how many packages one normally does.

-greg