[Fedora-packaging] Missing library symbolic links

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 18:30:27 UTC 2013


On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 10:13:24 -0800 (PST), David Highley wrote:

> "Ralf Corsepius wrote:"
> > 
> > On 11/07/2013 04:36 AM, David Highley wrote:
> > > We have noticed a growing trend of the final symbolic link not being
> > > established for libraries.
> > Could you provide an example?
> > 
> > To me, your description sounds like as if you have encountered packaging 
> > bugs in some packages.
> 
> Then there are several; X11, libxml2, libxslt, and others. Its not a
> simple script to try and identify all the ones missing as there are no
> hard and fast naming rules for libraries so that you could easily parse
> the real library and then check for symlink.

Sounds a bit as if you're missing the *-devel packages for those libs.
libX11-devel libxml2-devel and so on.


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