But creating correct symlinks IS one of the tasks of a system administrator... His up to know the distro he is using and the software he wants to install.
I bet a "in the field" sysadmin will be much more flexible than a hardcoded implementation that would need to take zillions of obscure distros in consideration from the limited perspective of compile time... 2012/8/15 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > This issue has come up before in a fcl-db discussion regarding the > Firebird Database, where the libfbclient.so was missing from many > Linux distros (eg: Ubuntu 10.04), but a libfbclient.so.2.0 was > available instead. FCL-DB only checks for the unversioned shared > libraries, thus your application will probably not run out of the box. > > I've stumbled across this problem again today with OpenSUSE 12.1 and > Synapse where I send emails from inside my applications via a secure > SMTP connection. The Synapse library is looking for libssl.so, but by > default OpenSUSE only has libssl.so.1.0.0. > > In both these cases, I manually created unversioned symlinks to those > libraries, and that got my applications working again. This is not > ideal, but I don't know how else to handle this. > > Does any body know what is the "most correct" way of handling this? Am > I supposed to modify my copies of fcl-db and synapse to look for > specific versions of these shared libraries, or should I somehow add > a function in my application installation that checks in unversioned > shared libraries exist, and if not, try and create those (which would > require root access - and might cause problems an client installs). > > Anybody know of any Linux documentation URL that explain when > unversioned shared libraries are used and when not, and how > applications are supposed to handle this? > > -- > Regards, > - Graeme - > > > _______________________________________________ > fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit > http://fpgui.sourceforge.net > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
