On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:31 -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> - Libraries which are used by other programs at runtime should
be
> versioned, and in %{_libdir}
> -- Are there exceptions to this? When is it appropriate to leverage
> subdirectories and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/?
How so, by adding a path to /etc/ld.so.conf?
At least the MPI packaging guidelines are an exception to this one: the
libraries are placed in MPI flavor specific directories, e.g.
%{_libdir}/openmpi/lib, which should not be visible to programs by
default. Instead, it is the environment module that sets the relevant
environment variables to make the libraries and runtimes usable.
--
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org