Hello there. My name is Marco Kuhlmann; I am intending to prepare several Debian packages containing the Mozart Programming System (see www.mozart-oz.org for further information). Being totally unexperienced when it comes to packaging, I guess I am going to appear quite often on this list in the future. So please, be patient with me...
My first question concerns the naming convention for library files. The project I am intendig to package makes use of a configure script, which also checks for some library header files and the libraries themselves. When the script reaches the check for the gmp2 library, it fails in detecting the file on my system -- although I have installed the gmp2 package. I found out that the script checks for libgmp2.so, while the deb-packaged version of gmp2 contains a libgmp2.so.2. Setting up a symlink solves the problem, but I guess that is not the idea. Now my question: Is it the script that is not well-written, or is it the gmp2-package that does not set up links properly, or what is it? Marco -- Marco Kuhlmann Student der Computerlinguistik [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~kuhlmann