On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Sylvain Colinet < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> Some distribution (debian) does not provide the libfoo.so symlink in the > binary that provide a libfoo. In the case of debian it's provided by > libfoo-dev. > > I was not able to find what was a standard behavior for the unversioned > .so file > There isn't one, and really nobody should be linking to that because the version may be any version a developer might want to work with, including old ones to build something for backward compatibility. One should almost always link to a specific API version. Unfortunately, NativeCall doesn't really support this sensibly. For example, on Windows if a DLL has an API version, it's usually appended to the name part. (e.g. MSVCRT2.DLL) I've been thinking about this a bit, and plan to write up a proposal when I have something sensible to say. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
