[zeromq-dev] libczmq.so.3.0.0 while gentoo package installed is 3.0.2?

[Pieter Hintjens]

This is a long-standing confusion. The ABI version is not the same as
the software version. People continuously forget this and zproject has
also forgotten it. I've put details here:
https://github.com/zeromq/zproject/issues/409


On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Benjamin Henrion <zoobab at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed czmq on my gentoo via:
>
> sudo emerge -1 "=net-libs/czmq-3.0.2"
>
> First I had to patch it to comment this line to make it work,
> otherwise it would not install:
>
> src_install() {
>     autotools-utils_src_install
>     mv "${ED}"/usr/bin/makecert{,-czmq} || die
> #   mv "${ED}"/usr/share/man/man1/makecert{,-cmzq}.1 || die
> }
>
> Second, when I was trying to compile malamute, and it failed at
> ./configure because it was not finding libczmq.so.3.0.1 at minimum.
>
> I finally solved the ./configure issue by renaming by hand
> libczmq.so.3.0.0 to libczmq.so.3.0.2.
>
> Any idea why?
>
> I feel this is the same issue with all the tarballs released on github?
>
> Best,
>
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