The standard on modern unix systems is to name the shared libraries with
this pattern: "lib" + name + ".so." + major version + "." + minor
version. Racket uses libracket-5.3.6.so. It isn't correct.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9.0M Aug 17 04:28
/usr/local/lib/libracket3m-5.3.6.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 14.3M Aug 17 04:28 /usr/local/lib/libracket3m.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 852B Aug 17 04:28 /usr/local/lib/libracket3m.la
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20B Aug 17 05:51
/usr/local/lib/libracket3m.so -> libracket3m-5.3.6.so
Look some examples. libpng on OpenBSD:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10B Sep 10 19:30 /usr/local/lib/libpng.a ->
libpng16.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 720B Aug 17 02:22 /usr/local/lib/libpng.la
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16B Sep 10 19:30
/usr/local/lib/libpng.so.17.0 -> libpng16.so.17.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 1.2M Aug 17 02:22 /usr/local/lib/libpng16.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 730B Aug 17 02:22 /usr/local/lib/libpng16.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 703K Aug 17 02:22
/usr/local/lib/libpng16.so.17.0
libarchive on Gentoo:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 10 09:12 /usr/lib/libarchive.so ->
libarchive.so.13.1.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 10 09:12 /usr/lib/libarchive.so.13 ->
libarchive.so.13.1.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 723968 May 10 09:12 /usr/lib/libarchive.so.13.1.2
Also you should add some easy setting to change the suffix X.Y.Z of the
lib. Some projects use variables in configure or the main makefile. The
version of the libs is unrelated to the version of the software. On
OpenBSD we change the numbers, so we can control when the dependencies
require an update.
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