Re: [wsjt-devel] Polling hamlib when flrig is being used?

[Richard S. <hob...@gm...>]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 9:27 AM Black Michael via wsjt-devel <
wsj...@li...> wrote:

> 4.0 breaks the ABI....ergo the major version bump.
>
> I see that Fedora does not mandate shared library usage
>
>
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_shared_libraries
> Applications linking against libraries SHOULD link against shared
> libraries not static versions.
>
> So yes...it's preferable to use dynamic...when it works...and in this case
> it's not the best solution for your users.
> In WSJT-X's case you'll be a lot better off (and many more happy users) if
> you use the hamlib.tgz provided with WSJT-X.
>

Since we're splitting hairs here :)

Yes, shared libraries are preferred, but that's not REALLY what we're
talking about. Here we're talking about bundling libraries, which used to
be forbidden without a council exception but that has been relaxed
somewhat, however, I still need to know what version I'm bundling for the
aforementioned security reasons but I add a virtual provide with the
version to the package, e.g.:

Provides: bundled(hamlib) = <VERSION>

Is it easy to figure out from the bundled archive?

Thanks,
Richard