Rekall for Mandrake

Hi all,
I have successfully built a full set of RPMS for Mandrake Cooker but 
have run into a few difficulties. Mandrake uses a macro called 
%mklibname. This effectively sets the library package name to 
lib%name%major plus extensions (eg: -runtime, -drivers, etc). This works 
very well except for -devel.

There are several .so files that rpmlint ( Mandrake's RPM correctness 
checker ) considers -devel files and belong in the -devel package. These 
include libkbase_componentview.so, libkbase_copierview.so, etc. On 
rechecking, all the .so files are this way. Now I could put these in the 
devel package but idea is not to have to load the devel package on 
installation.

The workaround is to add a major as a suffix to the lib *.so name. The 
problem is that the makefiles do not support a major and second, there 
is no clear place to add a patch. As an example, a line such as "$(CC) 
$(SHFLAGS) -Wl,-soname,[email protected] -o $@ $(LIBOBJS) $(RUNTIMELIBS)" would 
probably work ( with corrections ) but the question is where to put it. 
Needless to say, linking would have to be done but this can be added in 
the specfile.

Any help that you can provide would greatly be appreciated.

TIA
Spence