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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Slotted Lua + revdeps to be unmasked on Christmas Eve
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:12:45
Message-Id: db21d8c4-d5f8-d8dd-858f-4f84f539f7bf@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Slotted Lua + revdeps to be unmasked on Christmas Eve by Aisha Tammy
1 On 12/23/20 6:04 PM, Aisha Tammy wrote:
2 >
3 > Yes, this sounds doable and should work >
4 > Only problem is that if there is an actual liblua.so with the proper
5 > SONAME available in /usr/lib64 (I dunno if Gentoo has any provider of
6 > liblua.so with that SONAME, IIRC SLOT=0 currently does that) then it
7 > will ignore the wrong SONAMEd even with the -L/usr/lib64/lua5.2/
8 >
9
10 eselect-lua creates a symlink named /usr/lib64/liblua.so, but the -L
11 path should take precedence when looking for liblua.so. When it's
12 looking for e.g. liblua5.2.so at runtime, there is only one copy to
13 find, so no problem there.