[cl-debian] dh-lisp gains support for ECL

[Peter Van Eynde]

On Sunday 05 March 2006 12:14, René van Bevern wrote:
> [another improvement to the already pretty impressive dh-lisp package]
...

> commented out, because there is (should be) a better way to handle it:
> each ECL binary links with libecl.so, so the ecl package -- once it
> comes into Debian -- should bring a shlibs description and dh_shlibdeps
> should better solve this dependency. In case somebody proves me wrong
> and it turns out that shlibs don't work well in this case, I can just
> uncomment this code. ;-)

This is still an open issue for the ecl port, which started working last 
Friday (it installs and creates a clc v5 aware ecl binary just fine). The 
libecl.so file is not a 'library' in a traditional sense in that it publishes 
an API that C programs can use. I assume there is a stronger connection 
between a ecl-generated program and the ecl version as a whole then what you 
would expect from the library alone. 

So does it make sense to have a separate libecl package?

Groetjes, Peter

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