Re: [Xenomai] Packaging Xenomai-3

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 07:43:21PM +0100, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> El Diumenge, 25 de gener de 2015, a les 19:10:16, Philippe Gerum va escriure:
> > On 01/25/2015 12:14 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> > > But I was thinking in performance aspects comparing a system with cobalt
> > > vs a system with mercury.
> > 
> > Yes, but the results are now outdated (2011). This said, such benchmark
> > hardly reflected a use case. It was more a Xenomai 2.6.x vs 3.x analysis
> > of basic mechanisms (event notification, serialization, buffer exchange
> > etc) for measuring the impact of moving most of the real-time API
> > implementation to user-space, only keeping the core resource management
> > in kernel space. It proved to be positive.
> > 
> > Mercury vs Cobalt was only a by-product of those tests, specifically on
> > x86_32.
> 
> After this thread, I think more firmly that the libs should be renamed in the 
> manner that they could be co-installed in the same root, standard places.
> 
> Please upstream, could you think about it?

This is a decision that upstream should not impose to all users.
Only users with your specific needs should do what you want. And
in fact, I believe simply using the configure script options, it is
possible to install libraries in different directories. Maybe even
the --program* options apply to libraries too.

-- 
					    Gilles.
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