On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 17:40 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 26/01/2011 alle 10.26 -0600, Kent Yoder ha scritto:
> > 
> >   The PKCS11_<tok>.so naming was an artifact of past opencryptoki
> > versions.  We only need to keep those soft links around for backwards
> > compatibility.  The new naming, libpkcs11_<tok>.so, satisfies the
> > filesystem hierarchy standards for linux, so we need to keep the
> > libpkcs11_<tok>.so naming. 
> 
> Sorry, what the heck does FHS have to do with module naming?

  The FHS actually has a section on naming of libraries.  We did other
bad things too like name our 64bit objects .so64.  Was bad. :-)

> Anyway, if the right name is libpkcs11_tok.so, okay, good to know, and
> easy to fix. But why is the soname then set to the "old" one?

  I believe that is a bug.

Kent



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