From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: No more static `libgnat` with FSF GNAT?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:04:05 +0200
Date: 2013-04-14T18:04:05+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2tx3xqi.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.wvjfh2yvule2fv@cardamome
"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
> $ dpkg-query --listfiles gnat-4.6 | grep libgnat
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.6/rts-native/adalib/libgnat.a
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.6/rts-native/adalib/libgnat.so
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnat.so
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgnat-4.6.so
>
> And here the *both* a shared and static version appears.
No. What you see is a static library and a *symlink* to the shared
library.
> Something I don't understand now then, is: if the GNAT package
> provides the library, what is the purpose of this separate shared
> library package?
Read the Debian Policy about how shared libraries are packaged.
--
Ludovic Brenta.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-14 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-14 12:49 No more static `libgnat` with FSF GNAT? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-04-14 13:19 ` Pascal Obry
2013-04-14 15:47 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-04-14 16:04 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2013-04-14 15:50 ` Simon Wright
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