From 4dbc6aad1aa6cd9ebafcceeba2b71f7ea382fa4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sylvestre Ledru Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:04:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Document about the lib --- debian/README.Debian | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 debian/README.Debian diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1286930998 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +For now, the shared libraries of Rust are private. +The rational is the following: + * Upstream prefers static linking for now + - https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10209 + * rust is still under heavy development. As far as we know, there is + no commitement from upstream to provide a stable ABI for now. + Until we know more, we cannot take the chance to have Rust-built packages + failing at each release of the compiler. + * Static builds are working out of the box just fine + * However, LD_LIBRARY_PATH has to be updated when -C prefer-dynamic is used + + -- Sylvestre Ledru , Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:02:29 +0100