On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 12:19, Robert Fraser wrote: > I have a vague understanding of libraries on *nix systems, but can > someone give me a basic explanation (or a URL to an explanation) of > what the difference is between libstdc++.so.* and > libstdc++-libc6.*.so? I presume that the first is the older version of the C++ standard library, while libstdc++-libc6 is the version that is based on version 6 of the GNU C library.
While the version of different libraries is normally part of the extension (e.g. libcrypto.so.0.9.6, libcrypto.so.0.9.7) it appears that the authors of the libraries occasionally move the version number into library-name for major version changes, so there is no possible confusion between libraries (e.g. libcddb-slave2.so.0.0.0). -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
