[yocto] CommonAPI *.so bindings

[Suchy, Pawel]

Hi,

Yocto in none dev image does not allow to have symbolic links to versioned shared libraries.
That is causing a problem with binding CommonAPI dynamic libraries via commonapi.ini.
The commonapi.ini file contains sections where dependencies to proxy objects could be defined:
[proxy] local:commonapi.examples.Test:commonapi.examples.Test=libTest-DBus.so

But it cannot take link to versioned library because of that code:
http://docs.projects.genivi.org/ipc.common-api-runtime/3.1.5/Runtime_8cpp_source.html#l00283

 Runtime::loadLibrary<http://docs.projects.genivi.org/ipc.common-api-runtime/3.1.5/classCommonAPI_1_1Runtime.html#a3e51dbc5c5b72e879442c4ff579799ed>(const std::string &_library) {
321  std::string itsLibrary(_library);
322
323  // TODO: decide whether this really is a good idea...
324  #ifdef WIN32
325  if (itsLibrary.rfind(".dll") != itsLibrary.length() - 4) {
326  itsLibrary += ".dll";
327  }
328  #else
329  if (itsLibrary.rfind(".so") != itsLibrary.length() - 3) {
330  itsLibrary += ".so";
331  }
332  #endif

Questions:
1. How to solve best this?
2. Is it a good Yocto practice to not allow to have symbolic links in none-dev images?
3. Is there a way to have symbolic links to libs in /usr/lib directory in none-dev images?

References:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/genivi-ipc/2015-August/000525.html
Kind Regards,
Pawel

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