Bug 150411
| Summary: | mhash-devel does not require mhash | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Leonard den Ottolander <leonard-rh-bugzilla> | ||||
| Component: | mhash | Assignee: | Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 3 | Keywords: | EasyFix | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2005-03-05 21:09:31 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Leonard den Ottolander
2005-03-05 21:01:32 UTC
Created attachment 111697 [details]
SPEC file with "mhash-devel Requires: mhash" removed.
Why? mhash-devel contains a symlink to a DSO file which is only included in the main mhash package. Further, -devel package and main package ought to be always in sync. Nope. I can perfectly well build php with mhash support with only mhash-devel installed. Only on the production machine (web server) I will need to have mhash itself installed. If every -devel package would need the main package to be installed most build systems would grow rather fat, don't you think? The shared object itself is not necessary to build binaries that depend on it. Only the header file and the static library (.a and .la) need to be available in the -devel package. The .so file can be safely put in the main package without breaking anything. Why do you exclude .la? # libmhash.la - a libtool library file # Generated by ltmain.sh - GNU libtool 1.5.10 (1.1220.2.130 2004/09/19 12:13:49) # # Please DO NOT delete this file! # It is necessary for linking the library. You can only build php like that, because the static archive for mhash is included as well and you link statically. If it were not included, your build would fail. The .so link is not used at run-time, so it would be wrong to put it into the main package. It's only used during build-time linking. Including it within the main package would prevent multiple APIs/ABIs of a library to be installable at once. Take a look at other -devel packages. Find the rare exceptions where a -devel package does not require its main package. I exclude libtool archives, because we don't need them. Other issues with .la files are not relevant for mhash. |