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

[Szilárd Páll]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:05 PM, David van der Spoel
<spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se> wrote:
> 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.

You might want to have a look and perhaps comment on the gerrit
discussion: https://gerrit.gromacs.org/#/c/1055

--
Szilárd

>
>
>>>
>>> --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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