Re: [RFC] Fix udev pulling in libvolume-id-dev

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

On 15-01-09 19:53, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Koen Kooi<k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>  wrote:
>> On 15-01-09 08:41, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On (15/01/09 07:56), Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>> On 15-01-09 07:14, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> libvolume-id-dev does not provide the actual .so library, but it
>>>>> contains a
>>>>> symlink in /usr/lib, which points to /lib/libvolume.so.0 (the host one!)
>>>>> instead of ../../lib/ one...
>>>> That's the intended behaviours, since installing the packages will have
>>>> it point to ${libdir}/libvolume.so.0 on your device. I'm not sure if we
>>>> want to patch every package to use relative symlinks.
>>> We would use -dev packages on staged area normally to compile other apps
>>> depending on a given packge if we do not fix the symlink I think it will
>>> try to link to wrong library.
>> We don't use the -dev packages to populate staging :) I keep trying to
>> convince Richard that we should use them, but he keeps coming up with good
>> reasons not to do so :)
>
> Hmm then why do we generate them ?. We do not need these packages on
> target unless we switch to
> native development on target.

SDks and as you say native development (which is getting quite popular 
with the beagleboard folks).

regards,

Koen