URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42606>
Summary: libopal: unfortunate library name Project: GNUstep Submitted by: yavor Submitted on: Tue 24 Jun 2014 05:28:14 PM EEST Category: Libraries Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Change Request Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any _______________________________________________________ Details: The choice for the library name is unfortunate because such library already exists: http://www.opalvoip.org. I believe it is widespread enough since Ekiga, the GNOME VoIP application, uses it. Both libraries provide $(libdir)/libopal.so, which makes it impossible to coexist on one system in packaged form. There can't be two different libraries with identical binary package names (libopal-dev), either. Worse, this is not only a packaging issue. A program using GNUstep opal will happily (attempt to) link against the VoIP opal if they're installed on the same system with different prefix, because the VoIP libopal library version is greater. Please consider renaming at least the LIBRARY_NAME in order to provide a unique SONAME. Trivial patch attached. _______________________________________________________ File Attachments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue 24 Jun 2014 05:28:14 PM EEST Name: libopal-rename.patch Size: 1kB By: yavor <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=31610> _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42606> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-gnustep mailing list Bug-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnustep