On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:12:48PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:54:44PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: >> >>> /usr/lib/libexpect5.43.so Shared lib >> >> I neglected to notice this before. Is this the actual library, or the >> link to the versioned object? If the former, why isn't it versioned? >> How is it used? > > I'll let Shiv answer the first two (FWIW, when I install expect from the > existing open-source, it installs the actual library as libexpect5.43.so > with no symlinks to a versioned library.)
Wow, that's hideous. Though I'll note that it's the same for the tcl and tk libraries, too, so I guess it's just some brokenness the tcl/tk community somehow decided was the right thing to do. I'll hold my nose and try not to care. > As for the latter question, there is a libexpect.3 man page in the > materials directory. Ah, thanks. Danek
