[Fedora-packaging] invalid soname question?

[Guido Grazioli]

2011/3/31 Michael Schwendt:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:15:44 +1100, Guido wrote:
>
> So, it is planned to really hide this library (and its RPM dependenceis)
> in a future release?
>
> While the directory may be private (and outside run-time linker's search
> path), this is not true anymore after extending ld.so.conf. Plus, the
> library within that directory is treated like a public library instead of
> a private plugin (backend/module).
>
> Currently, as it seems, the tools and demos in %_libdir/MYGUI/ subdirs for
> Tools and Demos are linked with it and create a direct dependency on _any_
> libMyGUI.OgrePlatform.so found in ld.so's search path. I find this
> practice sort of questionable, since the library file name is unusual
> enough as to create a conflict in %_libdir and justify an own dir.

That's definitely true; as i said i tried to sort out things ahead of time,
and adding the ld.so.conf entry was the workaround, because unexpectedly
the tools and demos were linked directly to the wrapper library.

I regret if it is not acceptable; i will update the package moving the library
in _libdir (well just removing it from the old subdir as you found out its a
duplicate now), and renaming it with major version, asap.

Thanks for the hints
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