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

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