[PATCH] Shared samba build

[Michael Sweet]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
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> Hi Michael,
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> Michael Sweet wrote:
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>> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
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>>> ...
>>> seperate as well, for example, we could have:
>>>
>>> - - libsmbclient (basically libcli)
>>> - - libmsrpc
>>> - - libtalloc
>>> - - libldb
>>> - - libtdb
>>> - - libnet
>>> - - libcom
>>> - - libsocket_wrapper
>>> - - libregistry
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>> May I humbly suggest that you prefix all library named with "smb",
>> e.g. libsmbmsrpc, libsmbtalloc, etc. to avoid "polluting" the global
>> library namespace?
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> Sure. I'd agree with that for some, but not all, of those. It'd make
> sense for 'libcom', 'libregistry' and 'libnet' but not for the others
> IMHO. 'ldb', 'talloc' and 'tdb' are general purpose and are used by
> projects other then Samba. 'msrpc' already has the prefix 'ms'.

IMHO, if those libraries are not distributed separately then they
should have the "smb" prefix, particularly if other projects (I'm
thinking WINE here, but others might also use SAMBA code) are
already shipping their own versions...

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