[Bug 1310765] Re: libarchive.so is not symlinked

[Dustin Oprea]

I'm finding it very difficult to have software that works in multiple
environment (Mac and Ubuntu), as well as multiple versions of Ubuntu, using
your model. Since each repository generally only provides one version of
*libarchive*, wiring the library to 12 (for Ubuntu 12.04), 13 (for Ubuntu
14.04), or 14 (for OS X) always leaves software that is broken. If -I-
can't get it working in all of my environments, then it would be absurd to
try and support a general user-base using this design.

This is why everyone always installs a general (unversioned) symlink.

TLDP (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html at
3.1.1):

Thus, /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3 is a fully-qualified soname, which ldconfig
would set to be a symbolic link to some realname like
/usr/lib/libreadline.so.3.0. There should also be a linker name,
/usr/lib/libreadline.so which could be a symbolic link referring to
/usr/lib/libreadline.so.3.



Dustin


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Dustin Oprea
<myselfasunder at gmail.com>wrote:

> And yet you had time for that. I'll assume a "yes" from the implications
> that I cited previously.
>
> Thanks, Andreas.
>
> Dustin
> On Apr 22, 2014 11:31 AM, "Andreas Henriksson" <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
>
>> ... will have better luck in the other places already mentioned.
>>
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>> Title:
>>   libarchive.so is not symlinked
>>
>> Status in “libarchive” package in Ubuntu:
>>   Invalid
>>
>> Bug description:
>>   In Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, there is a libarchive.so.12 and
>>   libarchive.so.13, respectively. However, there is no libarchive.so .
>>   This makes it hard to build against.
>>
>>   Can you add this?
>>
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** Changed in: libarchive (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => New

** Changed in: libarchive (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  libarchive.so is not symlinked

Status in “libarchive” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, there is a libarchive.so.12 and
  libarchive.so.13, respectively. However, there is no libarchive.so .
  This makes it hard to build against.

  Can you add this?

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