[gmx-developers] Fwd: /usr/lib/libmd.so collision

[Christoph Junghans]

Through my gentoo channel I got the following email.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Richard Yao <ryao at gentoo.org>
Date: 2012/5/27
Subject: /usr/lib/libmd.so collision
To: ottxor at gentoo.org


I am currently porting the Message Digest library to Linux, but Gromacs
currently uses /usr/lib/libmd.so for its molecular dynamics library,
which conflicts.

The Message Digest library is a system library on both FreeBSD and
Solaris. The /usr/lib/libmd.so location is already used for it on those
platforms and I believe it should also be used on Linux.

I had a chat about this with alexxy and he told me to talk to you. Could
Gromacs rename its libmd.so to libgromacs.so to avoid conflicts with the
system libmd.so?

---------- End Forwarded message ----------

I guess, he has a valid point. As the problem is solved for
gromacs-5.0 already, the question is if we should also rename it in
4.6 (libmd -> libgmxmd), so that gromacs has no library conflict on
FreeBSD/Solaris.

Any strong opinion against that? Otherwise I will prepare a patch and
push it to gerrit.

Cheers,

Christoph



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Christoph Junghans
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