id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
673	Improve the multi-library building of the various BUFR tools	Ian Culverwell	Ian Culverwell	"ROPP-10.0 beta reviewers report:
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When the binaries built with the eccodes library are installed, they are
installed with a postfix to their name. We believe this is an excellent approach
if the older versions (e.g. those build against bufrdc ) are also present.

If binaries are only built using the eccodes library (given that bufrdc hasn't
been maintained since a long time), the standard executables (e.g., eum2bufr) do
not even exist. One way around for a user is to manually create symbolic links
to the existing binaries after installation; this could be automated at
installation time (see
https://gitlab.eumetsat.int/ro/ropp/commit/72b037480b07445589724a0ac1299adc6764bccb
for an actual implementation of this feature). An alternative option could be to
install a user-selectable version under the default names. In case such
behaviour is not implemented, the READMEs and other documentation should explain
the chosen approach and make users aware that they need to manually add symbolic
links or rename some binaries when building ROPP against ectools.
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Seems quite a good idea.  We could build as many of '''ropp2bufr_mobufr''', '''ropp2bufr_ecbufr''' and '''ropp2bufr_eccodes''' as possible (for example), and then soft link '''ropp2bufr''' to the default or preferred version.
"	task	closed	normal	11.1	ROPP(all)	9.0	fixed