[Pkg-lyx-devel] [pkg-boost-devel] boost soname change

[Sven Hoexter]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:48:02PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:

Hi Steve,

> We're generating the same name as the so-called "system" layout, which
> is used in other distributions such as Fedora [1].  Doesn't lyx
> support compilation on Fedora out of the box?

Fedora seems to provide both versions:

sven at marvin:/tmp$ rpm -q --provides -p boost-filesystem-1.39.0-2.fc12.i586.rpm
libboost_filesystem-mt.so.5
libboost_filesystem.so.5
boost-filesystem = 1.39.0-2.fc12
boost-filesystem(x86-32) = 1.39.0-2.fc12

sven at marvin:/tmp$ ls -la usr/lib/
insgesamt 160
drwxr-xr-x 2 sven sven  4096 15. Mai 08:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 sven sven  4096 15. Mai 08:00 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sven sven 70416 15. Mai 08:00 libboost_filesystem-mt.so.1.39.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 sven sven    32 15. Mai 08:00 libboost_filesystem-mt.so.5 -> libboost_filesystem-mt.so.1.39.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sven sven 70332 15. Mai 08:00 libboost_filesystem.so.1.39.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 sven sven    29 15. Mai 08:00 libboost_filesystem.so.5 -> libboost_filesystem.so.1.39.0


To be honest I've no idea about the pro's and con's of the naming scheme but
I wouldn't be surprised if it's going to produce some more problems in other
packages aswell. If there is a technical need to change it I'm fine with it
but what's a real pain is the back and forth we already had once around
exactly the same issue.

Cheers,
Sven
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