[ofa-general] Dapl 2 question/issue

[Allen Hubbe]

I wonder:  Could this be related to the problem I am having?

https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867

Allen

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Doug Ledford wrote:

> OK, I've been working on integrating the latest dapl stuff into our
> RHEL5.2 product and I've come across what I think is an issue.
>
> The dapl-2 code is not compatible with dapl-1 code, and there is a
> (albeit small, but still it exists) amount of work to forward port code.
> However, you maintained the same library name (aka, libdat) for both
> dapl-1 and dapl-2.  That means that, if code were to #include
> <dat/dat.h> and then link against -ldat, they would get the old dapl-1
> headers and the new dapl-2 library (assuming the dapl-1 headers are
> installed, which realistically they need to be until all dependent code
> has been forward ported to dapl-2).  In order for dapl-1 and dapl-2
> libraries and devel environments to be installed simultaneously, which
> is what you need for a seamless migration from version 1 to 2, you need
> different names on the libs.  Is there any chance we can get an updated
> dapl-2 that actually changes the lib name to libdat2.so instead of just
> libdat.so?
>
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