[Xorp-hackers] Heads up: extensive XORP library renaming, r11624

[Bruce Simpson]

Hi all,

In preparation for a 1.7 maintenance release, I've made a number of 
commits which clean up the library naming convention.

This is to facilitate installation in shared system paths without 
clashing with other packages, which was called out as an issue on 
xorp-users@ in the last month or so.

The tree should be settled down as of SVN rev 11624 on trunk.
If there are any problems building from source, please let me know.

All shared XORP libraries, with the exception of the XRL RPC stubs, are 
now named 'libxorp_*.so'.
The client-side stubs are now named 'libxif_foo.so', and the target 
stubs are now named 'libxst_foo.so'.

These changes should also make it clearer for systems administrators 
that the libraries belong to XORP, without having to resort to a tedious 
reverse lookup in a packaging system's database, just to determine where 
a library came from.

An additional benefit is that the output of the ldd(1) command should be 
clearer, which should help 3rd party developers, as well as package 
maintainers aiming to ship XORP in a distribution.

I plan to enable rtld ORIGIN support so the package can be relocated 
without recompilation, and to bring the installation image layout into 
line with BSD hier(7) / UNIX Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) 2.3.

thanks,
BMS