On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 12:25:37 -0500
Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Thomas Kahle <to...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to pass on maintainership of
> >
> > dev-cpp/gtest
> > dev-cpp/gmock
> >
> > I don't use them and I don't even remember how I came to maintain
> > them.  These two are among the packages that have googlecode in
> > their SRC_URI, so this is a bit urgent.  Upstream has moved to
> > github and merged the two packages:
> >
> > https://github.com/google/googletest
> >
> > The next and only thing on the agenda is to bump and unify the
> > two ebuilds to version 1.8.0 which was released in August.
> > Anyone?  
> 
> Whoever picks this up might want to consider switching to cmake, and
> installing static libs instead of shared libs.
> 
> The current ebuild installs shared libs with libtools default soname
> version (0). The cmake build doesn't even bother with that and
> installs bare .so files.
> 
> I don't think they are intended to be used as systemwide shared libraries.

AFAIK they are not intended to be installed as compiled code at all.
You are supposed to bundle them, or otherwise compile them from sources
along with your project.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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