On 2010-02-05, Brian Gough <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I find it an advantage to use the same names and different directories > rather than different names as it is easy to change the library at > runtime without modifying the executable via LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > -- > Brian Gough >
I agree with Brian. I find it very useful to have the *same* lib-name for different versions of the same library but place them in different directories. Using a starter script like #!/bin/sh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/blah_plah:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH exec $* I can choose at _run_ time what version of library to use without any need to recompile/relink my executable. I also maintain optimized and debug versions of GSL in two different directories. It is faster and easier to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH than to meddle with Makefiles. Just my two cents. --Leo-- _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
