On 25/11/09, 10:43:11, Maciej "(Matchek)" Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote regarding [csw-maintainers] Symlinks to shared libraries:
> I just got a review of my NSPR build from a NSPR/NSS developer, > Wan-Teh Chang. One of the comments was to stop creating a symlink to > a shared library. By default, nspr creates bare *.so files. My build > script renamed them to *.so.$(MINOR_VERSION) and created symlinks from > *.so to *.so.$(MINOR_VERSION). > > ls -l /opt/csw/lib/nspr/libnspr4.so* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 13 Nov 23 23:46 > /opt/csw/lib/nspr/libnspr4.so -> libnspr4.so.8 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 324344 Nov 23 23:02 > /opt/csw/lib/nspr/libnspr4.so.8 > Do we have any policy which requires creating symlinks? It's not about CSW policy but how ld and ld.so.1 work and versioning. What's the SONAME? James. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
