Re: Symlinks for shared libraries

2018-05-06 Thread Theo de Raadt
Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Mark Kettenis: > > > As we discussed some time ago, adding symlinks like > > > > libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.x.y > > > > brings us more in line with other ELF platforms and will allow us to > > drop some OpenBSD-specific code from our linkers. It

Re: Symlinks for shared libraries

2018-05-06 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Mark Kettenis: > As we discussed some time ago, adding symlinks like > > libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.x.y > > brings us more in line with other ELF platforms and will allow us to > drop some OpenBSD-specific code from our linkers. It also makes it > possible for developers to easily revert a

Symlinks for shared libraries

2018-05-03 Thread Mark Kettenis
As we discussed some time ago, adding symlinks like libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.x.y brings us more in line with other ELF platforms and will allow us to drop some OpenBSD-specific code from our linkers. It also makes it possible for developers to easily revert a library version bump. The symlinks