On Fri, 2 May 2003, Aaron Sloman wrote:
>
> A recurring problem with installing linux poplog has been the naming
> of library files requiring links to be inserted, e.g. a link from
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3
>
> to
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so
...
<snip: analysis of the problem and proposals>
...
> Any suggestions?
Another way around the problem might be to link the libraries statically
instead of dynamically. Then it wouldn't matter how the user's machine
had its dynamic libraries set up. The Opera browser offers both static
and dynamic Linux binaries for essentially this reason, as I understand
it.
The static pop11 would be a lot larger, of course. And there's also the
issue of whether the licences of the particular libraries in question
would permit distribution as part of poplog. That would also come up,
maybe in a slightly different form, for Aaron's proposal to distribute
the dynamic libraries from the poplog site. Would the licence
conditions require putting the library source on the site as well as the
binaries?
Stephen Isard
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