* Russ Allbery wrote on Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:41:52AM CEST: > Bob Friesenhahn writes: > > > libfoo-ssl_fast.so > > myprog --> somelib --> or > > libfoo-ssl_slow.so
> This case is exceptionally rare. It used to be a lot more common, and likely still is somewhat common, in the HPC community. You have several BLAS libraries to choose from, several higher-level ones, too. Of course, by now they aren't really binary compatible any more at all, so it makes this less possible. > In all the years that I've worked on > free software and packaging of software for multiple different versions of > UNIX, I've never wanted to do this, and I don't know of any case in the > thousands of packages in Debian where this technique is used. That was probably a conscious decision. > Normally > it's easier and more robust to just build two different versions of > somelib, one for each of the alternative dependency libraries. (See, for > instance, how cURL is handled in Debian.) So you end up with libfancyalgo-atlas-openmpi-devel and similar packages. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
