On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:22:39AM +0100, Emmanuel Christophe wrote: > Hi, > > First, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this. If not, > please redirect me to a more appropriate location. > > I'm writing about the libgdal1-1.4.0 and libgdal1-dev packages for debian: > - when trying to compile a program which uses gdal with cmake it > failed when linking as cmake is looking for libgdal.so (as it is the > name of the library on all other plateforms). However, the library > provided by the package is named libgdal1.4.0.so. > > In similar situations, most debian packages add a simlink with a > generic name to the library file. Is there a reason for not creating > this simlink with the libgdal1-1.4.0 package? >
It is a long history. We use a versioned name to avoid breakages due to C++ ABI past changes from one release to another. You (or your cmake configuration) are anyway using the wrong style of linking: gdal-config --libs provides all that you need to be distro independent at source level. -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel
