On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jordi Sayol <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/04/13 15:31, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Jordi Sayol <[email protected]> wrote: ... >> And are the bin files their own deb? > > Yes, that's correct, and documentation, split in html, pdf, etc. and then by > language too... > This is not a joke, is the Debian style, and is a lot of work.
Amen! A LOT of work. > As this is a big change on deb package, I propose you, and Christopher > as well, to create a parallel deb building process by coping of "misc/debian" > into > "misc/deb-testing" and "sh/make_deb.sh" into "sh/make_deb-testing.sh", > and you developing everything on it, and I'll keep the "stable" deb version > till your fork was mature enough. > > What do you think about? Sounds like a good plan to me. >>> A lot of work, but mandatory to include brlcad into Debian repositories, >> >> Can you point to the Debian document discussing that part? > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#multiple-binary Thanks! >> So how do you handle the user finding brlcad libs? LD_LIBRARY_PATH is >> not good practice as I understand it these days--I thought using >> ld.so.conf.d was the thing to do. >> > > First of all, let me tell you that I'm not a programmer, I'm just a Linux > advanced user, so my knowledge is very limited. Well, your shell scripting and pipeline commands show that you ARE a programmer. > Until I know, brlcad commands includes in theirs executable the path > to the brlcad shared libraries, and so, they not need any external reference > to find them. ... > In the other hand, if we install some library in /usr/brlcad/lib and > the same library is installed in the standard system lib path but > with a different interface and we share system wide the brlcad shared > libraries, > this can make to any program using this library to fail if it finds first the > wrong one. Now I think I understand. Best regards, -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
