[csw-maintainers] Shared library placement proposal

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Fri Feb 4 19:03:13 CET 2011


2011/2/4 Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> ...
> It does add some complexity, I agree.  But it does it for a good
> reason: we want to avoid other projects accidentally linking to a
> library which was thought to be private, ...

In other words, to reserve namespace of shared libraries.

I agree that this is a good thing, and that we should do "something" for it.
However, putting symlinks in /opt/csw/lib to a prefixed library's
location, is a perfectly valid 'something' for this purpose.


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