[Bug 461] Review Request: openmotif - Open Motif runtime libraries and executables

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461


Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #31 from Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com>  2010-08-17 16:15:37 ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> Choosing non-standard paths for installing header files and libraries is a bad
> idea. For this reason package ddd-3.3.12-5.fc14 fails to build against
> openmotif-devel-2.3.3-1.fc14.x86_64.rpm whereas it builds correctly against
> openmotif-devel-2.3.3-1.el6.x86_64 once the lesstif dependency in the spec file
> has been altered.
> The package origanization chosen by Red Hat for its EL package should be
> considered authoritative in this case. Header files are simply located in
> directory /usr/include. Accordingly, ddd-3.3.12-5.fc14 builds without a hitch.
> 

We (rpmfusion) have a very strong policy not to create packages which conflict
with packages already in Fedora. Thus we must put the .so devel symlinks and
headers in a different place. Yes this means that if you want to compile
something against openmotif you will need to somehow tell the buildsystem of
the something where to look for the headers and libs, this is unavoidable when
packaging 2 competing implementations of 1 API.


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