packaging shared libraries without autoconf and automake

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Sat Jan 23 17:51:31 UTC 2010


Chris Adams wrote:
 > If upstream isn't building a shared library, then you have no good way
 > to set a version and then maintain an ABI.
[...]
 > No matter how you make a shared library, I'd suggest getting that change
 > accepted upstream before trying to put it in Fedora.

I dug into it a bit more, and tt turns out that upstream does provide a 
way to build a shared library.  They use a separate Makefile for that.

I've submitted the package (levmar) for review.  Since it will be my 
first Fedora package, I'm looking for a sponsor.

Thanks!
Eric



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