[csw-maintainers] Shared library placement, take 3

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Jon,

Am 22.07.2011 um 13:38 schrieb Jonathan Craig:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> The only viable solution is to fix that and to force a unique soname.
>> This is what we have done on libnet1.
> 
> Are there side effects to this solution.  Obviously anything we built
> against our modified library would fail to find its shared library if
> someone removed ours and compiled their own.

Probably yet, but I would say if someone replaces one of our libs they
should better know what they are doing.

> How about end users
> compiling against ours?  Any issues with their ability to choose
> library version or anything like that?

They should always use the new one. The layout is described here:
  http://wiki.opencsw.org/project-libnet


Best regards

  -- Dago