On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:46:37PM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Ok, another question. I edited the CMakeLists.txt and changed the >> "STATIC" to "SHARED" and it compiled without issue creating a shared >> library. Is there any down side to doing this? >> >> I guess now I have something for the pugixml package and then can >> create a -devel subpackage with the header file and API documentation. >> > The downside is that the dynamic linker has a limited understanding of > versioning so that libfoo.so.2 and libfoo.so.3 are considered incompatible > but libfoo.so.2.0 and libfoo.so.2.1 are compatible. If upstream is making > releases of its libraries without thinking about compatibility and > versioning you may lead people to make false assumptions about this. The > best bet here is to talk to the pugixml upstream, letting them know how easy > it is to build shared libraries and asking if they're interested in managing > their versions appropriately for that use case. Well I went ahead and created a shared library package with soname, for now it's the same as the version. I submitted the patch upstream so we'll see what they think. Thanks for the help! Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
