Re: Writing shlibs for unversioned libraries

[Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de>]

Am Sonntag 30 Dezember 2007 schrieb David Paleino:
> Il giorno Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:48:33 +0100
>
> Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> ha scritto:
> > You could change the build system to make libgthumb.la a convenience
> > library (if it is using libtool), so that gthumb gets linked to it
> > statically and libgthumb.so does not get installed.
>
> I solved putting the .so into /usr/lib/gthumb/ and symlinking it from
> /usr/lib/.
>
> > Or does any other package use libgthumb.so?  If not, I do not see the
> > point in installing it in /usr/lib, it looks like a (build-system)
> > implementation detail to me.
>
> Yes, but I was looking for the cleanest solution (instead of the symlink)
> ;)

So either link statically or use an rpath to point to /usr/lib/gthumb. The 
symlink in /usr/lib is actually the worst thing to do.

HS