Re: soname

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:

> On 15 Nov 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> 
> > I don't think you understood.  I don't want any files that match the
> > name of the soname, if that is stuck at "libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1".
> > That's a stupid name, and I think there is no good reason to use it if
> > it has to appear in the filesystem.
> 
> > But that means that the understanding of behind my previous question
> > was incorrect.  I think what I'll do is hack the makefiles to generate
> > the library with sane names throughout.
> 
> IANAM (I am not a maintainer ;), but it seems to me that this is a prime
> candidate for a change to be submitted to the upstream maintainer.  That's
> quite an ugly soname, and it certainly isn't consistent with Unix conventions.

Oh, I'll definitely be talking to them once I've reached some kind of
stability in my own changes.