Re: CRM114 php extension

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Khalid Ahsein wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
> I seem that the PHP macro check for a shared library.

Hi Khalid,

This would explain a lot.

> libcrm114 cannot be packaged for shared link ?

Certainly I can package a shared library, preferrably in addition to the 
static library. The Makefile would have to produce libcrm114.so which I 
would package as libcrm114.so.1.0.0 or similar (according to the actual 
version) and add a symbolic link libcrm114.so in the package. This means 
we would need proper versioning so that several versions could co-exist in 
the future. In an ideal world the upstream source should be named to show 
the version; libcrm114-1.0.0.tar.gz as an example. The major version 
number is to be counted up when a new version is no longer backward 
compatible to previous versions. The middle number counts up for every 
release introducing a backward compatible change in the API and the minor 
number is for bugfix releases.

I really would like to see this done in the Makefile upstream rather than 
adding a patch to my spec file.

Bill: any chance that you consider to change your Makefile to produce an 
additional dynamic library?

> If not I will try to link crm114.c with libcrm114.a like Bill's
> simple_demo.c

Dynamic linking would be preferred as per openSUSE policy. We should get 
it right, or the packages will never find a way out of my home: repo into 
the main distribution.

Best regards,
Thomas

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