On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Ruediger Meier wrote:
On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Richard Guenther wrote:
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, David Lemke wrote:
I'm building a package that includes this library: http://www.lonesock.net/soil.html
This library is "meant to be used as a static library", so, I'm wondering if I should package it separately or not?
I read the following, but still feel uncertain about what to do: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Shared_library_packaging_policy
Thanks!
Static libraries go into a -devel package.
No, they should go into *-devel-static. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines#Static_Libraries
If there is no shared library? That would be excessive package number bloat. The -devel package would require the -devel-static package, which would never be useful to have installed on its own. Richard. -- Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> SUSE / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer