[ofa-general] Dapl 2 question/issue

[Doug Ledford]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:58 -0500, Allen Hubbe wrote:
> I wonder:  Could this be related to the problem I am having?
> 
> https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867

I wouldn't be surprised if this is related.

> 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?
> >
> > -- 
> > Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
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> >
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> >
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