[Gambas-user] RPM installation failed (0.90)

[Benoit Minisini]

On Saturday 28 February 2004 22:18, Rob wrote:
> On Saturday 28 February 2004 15:52, Daniel Campos wrote:
> > In fact, libgambas0-0.90-1mdk.i586.rpm provides lib.gb.qt.so.0
> > and lib.gb.qt.so.0.0.0, but not lib.gb.qt.so
>
> However, libgambas0-devel-0.90-1mdk.i586.rpm does provide the .so
> symlinks.  And libgambas0-devel is a requirement of Gambas, but
> it doesn't specify a version.  So if you do an uninstall prior
> to installing 0.90, it'll create the symlinks, but otherwise
> not.  Why the .so symlinks are in the devel package and not the
> lib package is a mystery to me, but it's something the cooker
> guys did when massaging my packages.
>
> I'll fix the requirements and reupload to cooker and my
> repository... thankfully, this will at least not affect first
> time users.
>
> Rob
>

I think the cooker guys think that .so links are only needed by people that 
compile programs. They didn't see that gambas relies on these links to load 
its components dynamically. Maybe I should change that on the future, and 
locate components by searching the *.so.X link instead of just the *.so one, 
like ld.so does.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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