Re: [Fedora-packaging] Request for Guideline Clarification

[Susi Lehtola]

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:31 -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> > Libraries which are used by other programs at runtime should be
> >
> > versioned, and in %{_libdir}
> > -- Are there exceptions to this? When is it appropriate to leverage
> > subdirectories and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/?
>
> How so, by adding a path to /etc/ld.so.conf?

At least the MPI packaging guidelines are an exception to this one: the
libraries are placed in MPI flavor specific directories, e.g.
%{_libdir}/openmpi/lib, which should not be visible to programs by
default. Instead, it is the environment module that sets the relevant
environment variables to make the libraries and runtimes usable.