On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:47:36AM -0500, James Carlson wrote:
> OK. I haven't seen libraries where SONAME is something other than the
> actual file name ...
We've got a bunch; some even came through psarc:
$ elfdump -d /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0 | grep SONAME
[3] SONAME 0x6eeb libdbus-1.so.3
> > >> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lcms.pc Uncommitted Pkg-config Entry
> > >
> > >This actually looks Project Private to me.
> >
> > pkgconfig determines how to link with liblcms; any files put there will be
> > found by programs which want to link with lcms. I'd hardly consider that
> > private.
>
> The output of pkgconfig itself isn't private; it's used by other
> software to find this library.
>
> The file that is contributed by this library to make pkgconfig work is
> private. Nothing (other than pkgconfig itself) should be reaching
> around into /usr/lib/pkgconfig directly.
I think that what the spec means to say is that the token "lcms" as a
pkgconfig module name is Uncommitted. That it happens to be delivered with
this particular filename is an implementation artifact of pkg-config.
Danek
