On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:20 -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > > Sure thing. The problem is with the ABI differences between > > > > g++-compiled and Sun Studio-compiled c++ libs. One possibility > > > > is shipping 2 variants (/usr/lib/g++/libgtkmm-2.4.so?). > > > > > > Do we know how many other GNOME apps/components might use gtkmm? > > > > http://www.gtkmm.org/extra.shtml > > Thanks. The reason I ask was to see if we could completely bury them > inside an Inkscape directory, but it appears not. One non-insane > possibility is that (unlike licensing), we could handle the name > conflict between two distinct ABI compiled libraries using > /usr/gnu/lib for the alternate C++ ABI.
It would make sense, since it's "GNU-related", but I'm slightly worried that /usr/gnu becomes a swamp if we find more and more uses for it. There's also a theoretical problem. Probably no such thing really exists, but let's say we have Solaris libfoo in /usr/lib and GNU libfoo, which is implemented in c++. Which build goes into /usr/gnu/lib g++ or Forte? Where do we put the other one? Laca
