On 26 February 2010 13:48, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > One note on this scheme wrt linux.. > > Fedora is making it illegal for appliation to link *only* to > libpetsc.so [if libpetsc.so relies on lipetscsys.so etc..] > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnderstandingDSOLinkChange > > perhaps other linux distos will do the same.. >
OK, these folks have lost their mind. This policy is something they should not enforce, but check for it, let say in a tool like rpmlint... Moreover, these checks should only make sense where the dependencies are for DSO's comming from unrelated packages... The issues that the proposed change is trying to address is VERY valid, but it has nothing to do with the use case I'm proposing for PETSc. -- Lisandro Dalcin --------------- Centro Internacional de M?todos Computacionales en Ingenier?a (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnol?gico para la Industria Qu?mica (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas (CONICET) PTLC - G?emes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594
