Description of problem: This comes out of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380878#c2 $ rpmls polymake-devel|grep lib64/lib -rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib64/libpolymake-apps.so lrwxrwxrwx /usr/lib64/libpolymake.so $ rpmls polymake|grep lib64/lib -rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib64/libpolymake-apps.so.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib64/libpolymake.so.3.0 I'd expect the -devel subpackage to contain a .so symlink to libpolymake-apps.so.3.0, not a normal .so file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): polymake-devel-3.0r2-1.fc25.x86_64
What on earth happened there? You're right. Something has gone awry. I will look into it. Thanks for the report.
It looks like upstream is doing this on purpose, although I have no idea why: gcc -fPIC -shared -Wl,-z,relro -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong -Wl,-z,relro -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-soname,libpolymake-apps.so.3.0 -o ../../lib/libpolymake-apps.so applib_fake.c gcc -fPIC -shared -Wl,-z,relro -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong -Wl,-z,relro -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-soname,libpolymake-apps.so.3.0 -o ../../lib/libpolymake-apps.so.3.0 applib_stub.c I'll try to find someone upstream who can tell me what this is supposed to accomplish.
What I know so far: - Nothing in Fedora is linked against libpolymake-apps; - Other distributions that ship polymake do not include libpolymake-apps; - The two libraries appear designed to work around some kind of linking problem, a problem we have not encountered in Fedora; - The very small amount of information available online about libpolymake-apps all talks about MacOS X, suggesting that the linking problem only occurs there. I am rebuilding polymake without libpolymake-apps. If some reason for including it in Fedora arises in the future, we can revisit this.
Thanks. This seems to be a reasonable solution.
Now we get to revisit this. It turns out that the next version of Singular, version 4.1.0, expects to link with -lpolymake-apps. So now I really have to figure out what this is all about. I'll go ask on the polymake forums.
Discussion is here: https://forum.polymake.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=538
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