<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The question is, what *should* it be called.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While yes, the 's' in 'so' is shared, the "dylib" and "dll" extensions on Darwin and Windows have the same meaning too. The problem is libclang.so is already taken.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm not attached to the name in any way, so I'm open to suggestions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We do have documentation on best practices for how to build distributions, which includes explanations of how to pick and choose what you want to install (<a href="http://llvm.org/docs/BuildingADistribution.html" class="">http://llvm.org/docs/BuildingADistribution.html</a>), so you shouldn't need an option to disable it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 1, 2019, at 6:13 PM, Tom Stellard via Phabricator <<a href="mailto:reviews@reviews.llvm.org" class="">reviews@reviews.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">tstellar added a comment.<br class=""><br class="">In D61909#1563678 <<a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D61909#1563678" class="">https://reviews.llvm.org/D61909#1563678</a>>, @sylvestre.ledru wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">For now, it isn't part of the debian packaging.<br class=""> <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-llvm-team/llvm-toolchain/blob/snapshot/debian/rules#L563" class="">https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-llvm-team/llvm-toolchain/blob/snapshot/debian/rules#L563</a><br class=""> it is removed as packaging phase as I have been told it isn't ready.<br class=""><br class="">Anyway, the lib should not keep this name.<br class=""> By definition, on linux, .so means shared. It should have a more explicit name.<br class=""><br class="">@beanz Can you please rename it? thanks<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">I've filed a bug for this and marked it as a blocker for 9.0.0, because once we ship a release with this name, it will be harder to change: <a href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42475" class="">https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42475</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Repository:<br class=""> rC Clang<br class=""><br class="">CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION<br class=""> <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D61909/new/" class="">https://reviews.llvm.org/D61909/new/</a><br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D61909" class="">https://reviews.llvm.org/D61909</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>