[csw-maintainers] nspr in testing/

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Mon Nov 23 18:53:48 CET 2009


On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> I have a question, mostly to Phil, about one shared object file in
> CSWnspr.  Here's the prototype bit:
>
> d none /opt/csw/lib/nspr/cpu 0755 root bin
> d none /opt/csw/lib/nspr/cpu/sparcv8plus 0755 root bin
> f none /opt/csw/lib/nspr/cpu/sparcv8plus/libnspr_flt4.so 0755 root bin
>
> It looks like nspr builds one V8+ shared library on purpose.  It puts
> it in a separate directory.  All other shared libraries are V8.
> Normally, packages with V8+ binaries are rejected.  In this case,
> there's a clearly separate V8+ binary, which looks optional to me.
> Would it be a problem to include it in the package?  Or should I just
> exclude it?
>

you absolutely SHOULD include it. looks very clean.
There is no global restriction about V8+ binaries. there's just a
restriction against them as
/opt/csw/bin/executable_here


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