On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:56:17PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Hi, Hi Dominic,
> Inspection of /usr/lib on my system reveals around 50 nonsymlinks of the > form /usr/lib/*.so. Are these all bugs? eg: > > ./libdb-4.4.so > ./liba52-0.7.4.so > ./libdb-4.3.so > ./libc.so > ./libdb-4.1.so > ./libdb-4.2.so > ./libdb_cxx-4.2.so > ./libdivxdecore.so > ./libdivxencore.so > ./libbfd-2.17.so > ./libfakechroot.so > ./libopcodes-2.17.so > ./libgnomevfs-pthread.so > [...] No. *.so are linker symlinks used at compiled time. The compile flags -lfoo looks for libfoo.so, incuded in -dev packages, different versions of which (libfoo1, libfoo2) all conflict with each other as per policy (via Provides: libfoo-dev, because they all contain common header file pathnames). The locations of the libraries are given by (compiletime?) defaults, as well as at runtime with eg. -L options. Too, there are actually two forms of library soname file naming used: libfoo.so.1.2.3 and libfoo-1.2.3.so Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
