Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

[Yury Umanets]

Timshel Knoll wrote:

> [CC to -policy removed, prolly is getting a little OT for them ...]
>
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:06:31PM +0300, Yury Umanets wrote:
>  
>
> > > 2. Make parted dlopen() libreiserfs-0.3.so.0 rather than libreiserfs.so.
> > > This will solve the problem, but is not ideal solution since a minor
> > > version upgrade or SONAME change of libreiserfs will break parted's
> > > reiserfs support (note that parted does its own internal checking of
> > > libreiserfs versions to make sure it is compatible, and gracefully
> > > fails if it can't resolve all required symbols on dlopen()).
> > > Also, the parted source code needs to be manually edited on every
> > > minor or SONAME change of library.
> > >
> > >      
> > The best solution is to add configure option in parted like 
> > --libreiserfs-path
> >    
>
> That still won't fix the problem. 
>
> The issue is that Debian's policy
> mandates that the libreiserfs.so symlink should be in the -dev package,
> not the main lib package. This means that parted's dlopen of the .so
> fails when the -dev package is not installed ... parted should really be
> dlopen()ing libreiserfs-0.3.so.0 rather than libreiserfs.so ...
I have meant something like the following command:

./configure --libreiserfs-so=libreiserfs.so.0

> Cheers,
>
> Timshel
>
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