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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:14:53 -0600

Hi Michael & Martin,

On 2013-03-11 Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> 
> The added dependency is caused by a change I made to where libCap5.so is
> installed for the 3.14.12 series.  Previously if was installed in
> /usr/lib/epics/lib, now it is under /usr/share/perl5 (I'll check, but I
> think it should actually be in /usr/lib/perl5).

You almost certainly won't be able to use a libCap5.so that was built against 
Perl 5.10 on Perl 5.14.  I introduced the Perl version number and architecture 
into the path to libCap5.so to allow different Perl versions and architectures 
to coexist in the same install directory.

> So avoiding the perlapi-* dep for epics-dev means moving (or removing)
> these scripts.  My current plan is to move CA.pm, libCap5.so, and the
> scripts which use them to a separate binary package.  Thoughts?

Sounds like a good idea.  The Perl5 major version number matters for this 
package, and it sounds like you might have to have more than one version of 
that package available for install depending on which Perl5 version is in use 
on the system — I would hope that dpkg can do something like that.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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