Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU desired libiscsi.so clashes with libiscsi.so from iscsi-initiator-utils

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:06:38PM +1100, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> Sorry about this.
> 
> First, libiscsi is a really good name for a general purpose
> multiplatform library, like libiscsi.
> Second,  a generic name like this is a horribly poor idea for a single
> distribution/ single use / obscure private library.

Yes, I agree it was a bad idea for the Fedora/RHEL admin to have done
this for iscsi-initiator-utils packaging. Now this exists though, the
library name & ABI has to be maintained in RHEL for back-compatibility,
so sadly we can't easily fix this. At the same time I really want to
include your iSCSI support in Fedora/RHEL.

So, IMHO, the simplest approach is to just avoid the namespace clash
by calling your library  libiscsiclient

Regards,
Daniel
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