Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (48 mails)

[Dan Čermák <dcermak@xxxxxxxx>]

Martin Pluskal <martin@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 10:41 +0100, Dan Čermák wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I would like to package a (kind-of) header only C++ library
> > (https://github.com/emilk/loguru). The problem is, that it actually
> > ships a cpp file in it's source tree (so I guess it needs to be
> > compiled
> > to a shared library?).
> >
> > The issue at hand is, that loguru is designed to be embedded in your
> > C++
> > project (there is *a lot* of compile time switches) and even running
> > the
> > test suite from a shared library requires a lot of patching of the
> > source tree.
> >
> > What would be the correct procedure for packaging? Create a shared
> > library nevertheless? Or create multiple libraries with some common
> > compile time switches? Or just install the sources into the file
> > system?
> Hi
>
> I guess you mean something like installing just headers like in i.e [1]
> - if so just having -devel subpackage is absolutely ok.

Yes, kind of. The difference is however that loguru ships a cpp file and
not just headers.

I would personally prefer to just ship the sources, as upstream clearly
wants it that way.


Cheers,

Dan

> Cheers
>
> M
>
> 1. 
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/devel:libraries:c_c++/sparsehash/sparsehash.spec?expand=1

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