Re: shared library in binary-package?

2009-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 08:48:50PM +0200, Heiko Stübner wrote: > as I was unsuccessful in finding similiar cases on the mailing lists I would > like some input on the handling of corner-case in packaging. > The package is fso-usaged from the freesmartphone.org software-stack and not > yet in de

Re: shared library in binary-package?

2009-09-07 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 03:19:19PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Do you have an example of such OS that is likely to be supported by > freesmartphone.org ? I know nothing about freesmartphone.org so I have no idea what they want to support. Gabor -- -

Re: shared library in binary-package?

2009-09-07 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Gabor Gombas a écrit : > That won't work if upstream wants to support OSes other than Linux. My > memory is getting hazy but I had to use the same technique in the past > because not all OSes are capable of letting plugins resolve symbols from > the main binary, at least not without extra complicat

Re: shared library in binary-package?

2009-09-07 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:12:52PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Sounds like upstream should be persuaded to move the shared library > code into the daemon since there is no reason for it to be in a > library. That won't work if upstream wants to support OSes other than Linux. My memory is getting ha

Re: shared library in binary-package?

2009-09-06 Thread Paul Wise
Sounds like upstream should be persuaded to move the shared library code into the daemon since there is no reason for it to be in a library. Until then, install it as a private shared library and use rpath so the daemon/plugins can find the library. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

shared library in binary-package?

2009-09-06 Thread Heiko Stübner
Hi, as I was unsuccessful in finding similiar cases on the mailing lists I would like some input on the handling of corner-case in packaging. The package is fso-usaged from the freesmartphone.org software-stack and not yet in debian. Compilation results in a binary fsousaged, a shared library