[OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] gmp: also generate the libgmpcxx library & package it properly

[Kamble, Nitin A]

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> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> Phil Blundell
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:00 AM
> To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] gmp: also generate the libgmpcxx
> library & package it properly
> 
> On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 17:52 -0800, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> 
> > Before the generation of libgmpxx library, there was only one
> library,
> > libgmp, and it was getting packaged into libgmp10 package. After
> > addition of the libgmpxx library the package name changed to the
> > recipe name (gmp), in order to preserve the previous package name(for
> > distro upgrades), and to let people avoid installation of libgmpxx if
> > they don’t need it in order to save the space on target, two packages
> > are generated for each library with this scheme.
> 
> Right, but that's not really the point.  I think what Otavio was trying
> to ask was, why didn't you just do:
> 
> PACKAGES =+ "libgmpxx"
> FILES_libgmpxx = "${libdir}/libgmpxx${SOLIBS}"
> 
> ?  I think the way you have done it will cause the libgmp package name
> to change for people not using debian.bbclass, which is probably a bad
> thing.
> 
> p.

Thanks Phil,
  This was also works the same. And producing same rpm packages as previous one. So I am happy to accept this change if it helps the deb packages. Will resend the commit.
Nitin

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