[Fedora-packaging] Another clarification of the static library packaging guidelines

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Jun 30 18:29:17 UTC 2010


On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:01:06 -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:

> On 06/30/2010 10:37 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:14:39 -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
> >
> >> Tcl allows static 'stub' libraries in the -devel subpackage.  See the
> >> last paragraph here:
> >>
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Tcl
> >
> > That removes  tcl-tclxml  and  tkimg, albeit on the assumption that
> > a package with "tk" at the beginning of its name and "stub" in its
> > static library names, is a Tk package.
> 
> It also removes tdom, memchan, and itcl, which were never converted to 
> the proper Tcl package naming guidelines.

Urks. :)  Got them. Looking for /tcl in the library path should be safe.
tdom, on the other hand, resides in %_libdir, so currently I'm ignoring it
based on its tiny file size plus "stub" in its name.


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