On 19.07.2015 14:02, Yaron Cohen-Tal wrote:
Ok, I get it. But I still don't understand (and this has nothing to do with CMake) why is it so that "By convention only one version within that prefix may be available for development at a time". If I want to develop one project that uses GLFW 2 and one project that uses GLFW 3, I need to have both installed. I could just link one project with "libglfw.so.2" and the other with "libglfw.so.3". But my system (Debian) doesn't let me do that, as the development packages of GLFW 2 and GLFW 3 conflict (they both contain the symlink "libglfw.so"). Do u have any idea why it's like that, and if it has a workaround? (Other than building from source)
Having multiple versions of a library available for development at the same time within the same installation prefix requires disambiguation for the library names and include files at the filesystem level.
Library developers might allow for this by adding a version number to the library name (before the suffix) and include directory (e.g. Qt, GTK, SDL, Python).
Most often this is limited to major releases where porting from one version to the next is non-trivial. This isn't something that distributions can (or rather should) add if it hasn't been part of the library's design.
It is in the interest of library developers and distributions to minimize the number of versions and permutations to maintain.
You can work around this somewhat by installing custom versions into isolated distinct (version specific) installation prefixes.
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