We have noticed a growing trend of the final symbolic link not being established for libraries. Since the linker auto name mangling breaks because of this issue it causes the platform to be a problematic development host. Either the system administrators have to go an manually establish missing links or build process must be modified to use full paths to library files. Neither of these solutions are desirable. We are seeing this with RedHat Enterprise and other distributions as well. Question, how long do we think a distribution will be an acceptable development hosting platform because of this issue? We think this maybe due to disagreement over what version of a library should be the default. Taking the current approach is not a good long term solution. We believe the most current version should be the default and if a package needs an older version then that package should have to customize their installation. This is not a flame, it is meant to be constructive. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
