On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 04:41:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > That is a nice, rational versioning scheme, I agree.
> >
> > I don't see how it fits in this discussion, though. For one thing,
> > I'm not using libtool.
>
> But all shared libraries are recommended to follow this convention.
>
> > So I guess I'm still searching for the answer to my original questions:
> >
> > 1. Does Debian require a SONAME for a shared lib?
>
> You mean the tag inside the library itself?
Yes.
> All of the shared libraries I have installed on my machine have an
> embedded SONAME tag. I thought this was required by the dynamic linker?
Not so!
cd /usr/lib
for x in *.so ; do objdump -p $x | grep -q SONAME || echo $x; done
Results:
>From my preliminary inventor packages:
libInventor.so These are mine
libInventorXt.so
>From package gmt:
libgmt.so
libpsl.so
>From package swig:
libswigpl.so
libswigpy.so
libswigtcl.so
libswigtcl8.so
These are perfectly good shared libs, in the sense that I can
link against them:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/ivview |grep Inventor
libInventorXt.so => /usr/lib/libInventorXt.so (0x40026000)
libInventor.so => /usr/lib/libInventor.so (0x400b8000)
I gather from Steve L's response that he would consider these packages
to be in violation of policy, however.
-S
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