Re: Links for Libraries

[Mike Coleman <coleman@chez-gnu.cstp.umkc.edu>]

   Date: Tue, 4 Jun 96 03:28 BST
   From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>

   David Frey writes ("Links for Libraries"):
   > I learnt some time ago from the libc/ld.so release notes that it's 
   > necessary to have links from libfoo.so to libfoo.so.x.y (besides the
   > usual libfoo.so.x -> libfoo.so.x.y links). They had to be created manually
   > for ELF systems.
   > 
   > Is this still true? If no, I had to re-upload some packages...

   Yes, it is still true that these links are required.  Packages should
   create them.

   The best way is for the package to create the link libfoo.so to
   libfoo.so.x rather than to libfoo.so.x.y - this will involve less
   mucking about when then library version changes.

If you add one of these .so. libraries, you need to run 'ldconfig' afterwards,
don't you?  Doesn't ldconfig add these symlinks for you?

--Mike