Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

2017-08-13 Thread Fred van Stappen
>> You have a opinion that every respect, me first. > It's simply how it is and has been for the past 60 years or so. Ha, ok, with this argument, I stop to try to change things. Sorry for the noise. Fre;D ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

2017-08-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Fred van Stappen said: > But maybe it could be interesting to listen to other, even if you think > that those people are stupid. You are talking to the wrong people. If you think this behaviour is incorrect, talk to the powers that be in charge of changing this (read:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

2017-08-13 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 13/08/17 20:50, Fred van Stappen wrote: You have a opinion that every respect, me first. He gave a description of how linking against libraries from any language (C, Pascal, Go, Ada, ...) works on Unix-like systems. It is not related to opinions. It's simply how it is and has been for

Re: [fpc-pascal] Food for thought - language string improvement

2017-08-13 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Am 10.07.2017 um 15:00 schrieb Sven Barth via fpc-pascal: > Am 10.07.2017 13:19 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" > >: >> >> >> >> On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Michael Van Canneyt

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

2017-08-13 Thread Fred van Stappen
Please Sven, keep cool. You have a opinion that every respect, me first. But maybe it could be interesting to listen to other, even if you think that those people are stupid. > The *-dev packages also contain the symbolic link from the library without > version to the versioned one.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

2017-08-13 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Am 13.08.2017 17:42 schrieb "Fred van Stappen" : > > Hello Martin. > > Description of libx11-dev package (in /DEBIAN/control). > > Package: libx11-dev > ... > Description: > > This package contains the development headers for the library found in libx11-6. > Non-developers

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

2017-08-13 Thread Benito van der Zander
Hi, that reminds me of Synapse. It is always very confusing to people that they need to install libssl-dev to use https, and libssl does not work. Because libssl-dev contains libssl.so or so, while libssl only has libssl.so.1.0.0, which is not found... And then you tell people to install

Re: [fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

2017-08-13 Thread Fred van Stappen
Hello Martin. Description of libx11-dev package (in /DEBIAN/control). Package: libx11-dev ... Description: This package contains the development headers for the library found in libx11-6. Non-developers likely have little use for this package. ... Afaik, fpc does not use the C headers (I did