* "Lucian Adrian Grijincu"
| 2. Unices - Linux distros set libapr-1.so to be an (indirect) symlink
| to the real libapr-1.so.0.2.x and applications link to libapr-1.so (or
| libapr1.so.0). If someone wants to use the n.{odd} version to test
| stuff he can always link his app to the libapr-1.so.0.{odd}
| version.
Except that linking is done with the SONAME in the .so:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test > cat test.c
int main() {
return 0;
}
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test > gcc -o test test.c -L. -lfoo
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test > objdump -x test | grep NEEDED
NEEDED libapr-1.so.0
NEEDED libc.so.6
(libfoo.so in the current directory is just a copy of libapr-1.so.0.2.7)
If you really, really want to avoid people ending up with wrongly
linked binaries, make the SONAME libapr-1.so.$svn-revision and then
make it .0 for releases. Anybody shipping anything linked with a
snapshot will then have very visible breakage when they try to use the
binary if they don't have all depends installed.
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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
