Packaging question

[Harold L Hunt II]

David,

The standard XFree86 packages do things differently.  We are following 
that standard.

Harold

Fries, David D wrote:

> 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.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
>>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:32 AM
>>To: cygx
>>Subject: Packaging question
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>>We should be putting bin/*.dll in the "bin" package and 
>>lib/*.a in the 
>>"prog" package, correct?
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>>Currently we are putting both bin/*.dll and lib/*.a in "bin".
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>>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
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