On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 03:40:14PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > On 02/02/2011 03:42 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote: > > Hi Sean, > > > > I just realized the librdmacm-devel (version 1.0.8-5.el5 is installed on > > the system I hit that) is dependent on librdmacm, and wasn't sure if its > > a bug or a feature... the dependency is created through > > /usr/lib64/librdmacm.so which is soft link to the obj file installed by > > librdmacm. > > > > This is a normal policy for RPM based distributions. I believe deb > based distributions do something different, but don't recall the details.
DEB is the same. The linker requires the actual .so to be able to link, so a -devel package without a corrisponding (MATCHING) lib package is useless. $ apt-cache show libibverbs-dev Package: libibverbs-dev Priority: extra Section: libdevel Installed-Size: 364 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Roland Dreier <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Source: libibverbs Version: 1.1.3-2ubuntu1 Depends: libibverbs1 (= 1.1.3-2ubuntu1) Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
