Packaging for Fedora

[Bernard Johnson]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland <hauk at tildeslash.com>wrote:

> This is a good suggestion and we have dropped release info from the library
> name. Can you please check out libzdb from svn, build it and verify that the
> library is named as you requested?
>
> Checkout from http://code.google.com/p/libzdb/source/checkout
>
> You need re2c (a scanner) to build from subversion. re2c should be
> available in a fedora package otherwise try http://re2c.org/
>

I checked out the r175 diff and applied it to the 2.3 sources and ran
autoreconf and the library names came out without the release version - this
was what I was looking for.  If you want me to test specifically the svn
version too, I can do that.

The other suggestion that was made to me was that you might want to move the
header file install from $DESTDIR$(includedir) to
$DESTDIR$(includedir)/$(PACKAGE_NAME)  [or similar].   The names of the
header files are fairly generic and might create a namespace collision.

For Fedora I'm currently applying a patch for this, but it seems like a good
idea to me.

Thank you.
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