Re: [RFC] Packaging libtraceevent.so

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>]

On 12/2/2013 11:03 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> The question has recently come up in Fedora about packaging the
> libtraceevent.so library. Currently there's 4 users of it:
>
>   1) perf
>   2) trace-cmd
>   3) powertop
>   4) rasdaemon
>
> But each have their own copy of the code.
>
> Both perf and trace-cmd are the major developers of the package, and I
> would recommend that they continue using the *.a version, but for those
> tools that are simple users of the library, it would probably make
> sense to have them use libtraceevent.so and remove their copies from
> the code (powertop and rasdaemon).
>
> The question that I'm posing here is, what currently needs to be done
> to have this happen?
>
> Is the API stable enough for a release?
>
> We probably should have a dot versioning with the .so (ie.
> libtraceevent.so.1)
>
> So what are people's thoughts on this topic?
>

powertop would much rather use a system copy than our own...
but if it's not there in common distros we need to carry our own obviously