On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland <hauk@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.