On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:47:58 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
<barbi...@gmail.com> said:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:39:33 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> > <barbi...@gmail.com> said:
> >
> >> Not all distros pack the other eio, and we're not going to change in
> >> upstream.
> >>
> >> This means you must change it at fedora side. Patch our Makefile and eio.pc
> >> so it uses the new name. As all our users should be using pkg-config it
> >> would be transparent to them. Just keep the name stable in fedora.
> >
> > of course this means that binaries NOT packaged and modified to link to your
> > rename of eio on fedora will fail to work at all. you basically broke abi
> > "universally" for fedora (ie within fedora it works but not across/outside).
> 
> realistically speaking there is no such thing as "universal abi". The
> ABI is defined within a distro unless there is some external
> requirement for such (ie: crap LSB). Different libc tweaks, security
> methods, required signatures, etc varies accross distros.

valve, steam, sdl and most game makers might disagree with you there.

> People that tried to do this with those ancient "sh-tarball"
> installers fail miserably over the years. Nowadays they provide distro
> specific packages and if you don't have that distro is up to you to
> fix the problems, take Tizen SDK installer as an example :-)
> 
> 
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