GCC/binutils shared library search changes?

[Stephen Early <sde1000@cam.ac.uk>]

Was either GCC or binutils (whichever is appropriate) changed between 
gcc-2.7.0-2 and gcc-2.7.2-1 or binutils-2.5.2l.20-2 and binutils-2.6-1 so 
that it won't find ELF shared libraries with names like libX11.so.6.0, 
only libraries with names like libX11.so?

I ask because X has suddenly started statically linking the core binaries 
when I do a complete build. It compiles the shared libraries first, and 
puts symbolic links in a temorary 'usrlib' directory. This directory 
looks like this:

total 0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 sde1000  sde1000        17 Dec  7 18:50 libFS.a ->
../lib/FS/libFS.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 sde1000  sde1000        19 Dec  7 18:28 libICE.a ->
../lib/ICE/libICE.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 sde1000  sde1000        24 Dec  7 18:28 libICE.so.6.0 ->
../lib/ICE/libICE.so.6.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 sde1000  sde1000        21 Dec  7 18:57 libPEX5.a ->
../lib/PEX5/libPEX5.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 sde1000  sde1000        26 Dec  7 18:57 libPEX5.so.6.0 ->
../lib/PEX5/libPEX5.so.6.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 sde1000  sde1000        17 Dec  7 18:28 libSM.a ->
../lib/SM/libSM.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 sde1000  sde1000        22 Dec  7 18:28 libSM.so.6.0 ->
../lib/SM/libSM.so.6.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 sde1000  sde1000        19 Dec  7 18:26 libX11.a ->
../lib/X11/libX11.a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 sde1000  sde1000        24 Dec  7 18:26 libX11.so.6.0 ->
../lib/X11/libX11.so.6.0

etc.


If this is going to be a permanent change then I can probably hack the 
Imakefiles to make extra lib*.so symlinks.

Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk