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RE: Packaging question
- From: "Fries, David D" <david dot fries at boeing dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:44:41 -0500
- Subject: RE: Packaging question
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Debian puts lib*.so libraries in a lib package, and lib*.a
packages in a dev package. Specifically xlibs and xlibs-dev
althought the xlibs-dev would have include files as well.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:32 AM
> To: cygx
> Subject: Packaging question
>
>
> We should be putting bin/*.dll in the "bin" package and
> lib/*.a in the
> "prog" package, correct?
>
> Currently we are putting both bin/*.dll and lib/*.a in "bin".
>
> Putting the DLLs in bin is correct because you need the
> shared libraries
> in order to run, which is why lib/*.so are put in "bin" on other
> platforms. Putting the *.a link files in the "prog" package
> would seem
> correct as well, since they are only needed to compile new
> programs and
> should be grouped together with the headers in "prog" as on
> other platforms.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Harold
>
>