On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:11:49PM -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
>
> /topic FESCo meeting -- Free discussion around Fedora
I'd like to ask FESCO to acknowledge or criticise 2 deviations from the
guideline rules for the cernlib
* paw is linked statically against the cern libraries. Otherwise it
fails on 64 bit platforms
* I ship the static libs in the -devel package. In general I think it is
bad, but in the case of the cernlib there are 2 arguments in favor of
doing that:
- on 64 bit platforms linking dynamically results in failures (like
in the paw case)
- the script used to drive the link against the cern libraries link
statically against those libs (but dynamically against other
libs). This is linked with the above issue, of course, and I also
think that the cernlib users are waiting for static libs rather
than shared ones because that's the only libs upstream propose.
Having shared libs has been added by debian (and a recent upstream
release didn't include this change). It may also help solve issues
with programs portability linked with the shift from g77 to
gfortran.
More information on
http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/cernlib/faq.html#33
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Pat
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