Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
Marco Kuhlmann wrote: > Mitch Blevins wrote (1999-02-17, 16:08): > > > > I found out that the script checks for libgmp2.so, while the > > ^^ > > Are you sure you don't mean that the script is checking for libgmp.so? > > This is the problem I ran int

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 06:14:40PM +0100, Marco Kuhlmann wrote: > It is easy to patch the script, but it would be better to know where the > error is: should the gmp2-dev package provide a symlink named libgmp.so, > or should the maintainers of the script change it to also look for > libgmp2.so? I

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-18 Thread Marco Kuhlmann
Samuel Tardieu wrote (1999-02-17, 21:54): > In general, a "libxxxn" package provides support for library "xxx" with > a major number of "n". That means that you can run programs that need such > a library at execution time. > > Now, if you want to compile programs using this library (instead of j

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-18 Thread Mitch Blevins
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:12:45AM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > Great, thanks! > > http://www.mozart-oz.org/download/srctar.shtml > > in mozart/aclocal.m4, look for > > OZ_CHECK_LIB_PATH(gmp, mpz_init, > > and change that to > > OZ_CHECK_LIB_PATH(

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:12:45AM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Great, thanks! > http://www.mozart-oz.org/download/srctar.shtml in mozart/aclocal.m4, look for OZ_CHECK_LIB_PATH(gmp, mpz_init, and change that to OZ_CHECK_LIB_PATH(gmp2, mpz_init, I had to download and unpack m

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-18 Thread Mitch Blevins
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >> Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > It that's a normal configure script, look in configure.in for something > > > like: > > > > > > AC_CHECK_LIB (gmp2, ...) > > > > > > and change it; then run autoconf. > > > > Alas, this tactic has been tr

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It that's a normal configure script, look in configure.in for something > > like: > > > >AC_CHECK_LIB (gmp2, ...) > > > > and change it; then run autoconf. > > Alas, this tactic has been tried... and has failed in its purpose. > If k

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-18 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-mentors, you wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 04:08:59PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > Are you sure you don't mean that the script is checking for libgmp.so? > > This is the problem I ran into when I looked at packaging it. > > Of course you can set up local symlinks, but that is

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 04:08:59PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Are you sure you don't mean that the script is checking for libgmp.so? > This is the problem I ran into when I looked at packaging it. > Of course you can set up local symlinks, but that is not the answer. > I grepped my heart out bu

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-17 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-mentors, you wrote: > 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

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-17 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 17/02, Marco Kuhlmann wrote: | 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

Conventions for library naming

1999-02-17 Thread Marco Kuhlmann
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 t