Re: [GNUnet-developers] debian packages of 0.5.4

[Blake Matheny]

Glenn,
not every platform uses the .so extension. I would strongly advise 
against using this method. There are configure time m4 checks to see 
what the 'proper' way to get this extension is.

-Blake

Glenn McGrath wrote:

> I have some debian packages available of 0.5.4 at
> http://people.debian.org/~bug1/gnunet/
>
> To get the packages lintian clean (no packaging errors) i dont install
> the <library>.so symlink, just <library>.so.0 and <library>.so.0.0
>
> To get this to work i had to change dso.c, im not 100% sure its the
> right thing to do, but i think its better to load <library>.so.x so we
> can preserve backwards compatability.
>
>
> --- gnunet-0.5.4.orig/src/util/dso.c
> +++ gnunet-0.5.4/src/util/dso.c
> @@ -39,10 +39,9 @@
>   char * libname;
>  
>   libname = MALLOC(strlen(dso) +
> -                  strlen(prefix) + 1);
> +                  strlen(prefix) + 6);
>   libname[0] = '\0';
> -  strcat(libname, prefix);
> -  strcat(libname, dso);
> +  sprintf(libname, "%s%s.so.0", prefix, dso);
>   return libname;
> }
>                                                                        
>       
> @@ -90,7 +89,7 @@
>   /* finally, load the library */
>   libname = buildLibName(libprefix,
>                         dsoname);
> -  libhandle = lt_dlopenext(libname);
> +  libhandle = lt_dlopen(libname);
>   if (libhandle == NULL)
>     errexit("Could not open library %s (%s)!\n",
>            libname,
>
>
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