On 15-8-2012 13:49, Jonas Maebe wrote: > > On 15 Aug 2012, at 13:32, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >> On 15 August 2012 12:10, Jonas Maebe >> <jonas.maebe-3rqwkoel1alvsukgzv2...@public.gmane.org> wrote: >>> >>> The official way to get the unversioned symbolic links is to install the >>> -dev or >>> -devel package for that library. Of course, you're not supposed to require >>> end-users to do that. >> >> Yes, I know that bit, but even as a developer, if I don't do actual >> Firebird or OpenSSL development (I don't work on those project, I >> simply use there libraries), I don't need to install those libraries. > > The dev/devel packages are not for people working on those libraries, they > are for building programs that use those libraries. It's developers that do > work on those packages themselves that don't necessarily need those packages, > since they can just use their own source code. > >> That is why my Ubuntu and OpenSUSE system didn't have the -devel >> packages for them installed. FCL-db and Synapse dynamically load those >> libraries on my development machines, so no -devel package >> requirement. > > You said that you manually created the symbolic link. I simply explained that > you should never do that, and instead install the development packages > because they will do that (correctly) for you. Whether or not it is desirable > for the FCL/Synapse units to require an unversioned symlink to be present is > a separate issue. In other words, you'd have to add the relevant -dev/-devel packages as dependencies in your .deb or .rpm package, right?
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