On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:43:03PM -0400, John Ridgway wrote: > Friends - > I have a question. First the background. I have a package that I'm > currently working on (polyml5), and it builds a shared library. The > package is at version 5.1, and the shared library that it builds is > libpolyml.1.dylib. This library has the appropriate install-name and > compatiblity and current versions 2.0.0. I incorrectly stated earlier > that the library was essentially private; this, it turns out, is > incorrect. Now, as I read the fink policy with regard to shared > libraries, section 3.4 of the packaging manual, I should be creating > two packages with names polyml5 and polyml5-shlibs (a split-off). > This is fine, but it also seems to suggest that the library should be > named libpolyml5.5.x.y.dylib rather than libpolyml.1.x.y.dylib. > > Now for the question: what do I do? It seems to me that I need > polyml5 and polyml5-shlibs, and polyml5-shlibs should contain > libpolyml.1.0.0.dylib. Is that the right thing to do? > > I admit to being confused about this issue; and it is made worse by > the fact that the earlier version (5.0) of this package didn't use > versioning at all.
Package version is irrelevant when working with shared library naming. In general the package-name should follow the install_name, whatever it is (so "polyml1-shlibs"). dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
