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

[David van der Spoel]

On 2012-05-30 18:49, Christoph Junghans wrote:
> 2012/5/30 Peter Kasson<kasson at gmail.com>:
>> I'd vote against changing library names for 4.6 on two grounds:
>> 1--too close to the release.
> I tend to disagree. The beta release is not even out yet and at least
> 2 big new features need to be merged before that.
>
> This change is really minor:
> <https://gerrit.gromacs.org/#/c/1055/>
> and people will anyway need to adapt their old programs a bit to make
> it work with 4.6 and replacing -lmd by -lgmxmd will not add much.
> In most case I have seen so far people have used libgmx and not libmd.
>
>> 2--default installation is /usr/local/gromacs/lib rather than /usr/lib.
> This argument is only half true. As soon as gromacs 4.6 is released,
> it will get packaged and hence end up in /usr/lib. So we just move the
> complication to the maintainers, which can lead to a zoo of renaming
> in every distribution (see g_ renaming of all binaries in Fedora). Or
> it will lead to a blocker with FreeBSD userland, which is also not
> nice.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christoph
I agree with Christoph here. This is a really minor change, and the 
possibility that Linux distributions do not include gromacs is not good 
either.


>>
>> --Peter
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Peter Kasson, MD, PhD
>> Assistant Professor
>> Departments of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
>> and of Biomedical Engineering
>> University of Virginia
>
>
>


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