[Debian-science-sagemath] name of arb library in Debian and adjustments needed

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 12/07/2019 14:39, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 11:36 AM Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
>>
>>
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>> On 12/07/2019 10:31, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>> I've run into the fact that Debian ships an unusally named arb library
>>> (libflint-arb.so rather than libarb.so)
>>> on https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27270
>>> and I wonder how to adjust the rest of Sage to use it.
>>>
>>> Could you point me at the corresponding patch(es)?
>>
>> This choice is made to avoid name collision.
>> I am not so sure of what you want.
>> The patches are applied as Debian patches (read debian centric patches).
>>
>> Ideally arb would come with a pkg-config meta data file.
> 
> I agree - there is https://github.com/fredrik-johansson/arb/issues/272
> to deal with this. Probably we need to ping Fredrik (in CC) on this.

It must be kept in mind that arb is the end of a long chain of libraries that do not come with pc meta data files,
the first of the chain being GMP. A more practical idea is to write a m4 file. You can write your own m4 file
without waiting for upstream work.

Jerome

> 
> Dima
> 
>>
>> hth,
>> Jerome
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dima
>>>
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