Bug#817988: libc6-dev: libm.so no longer a symlink in 2.22-2 ; break dlopen() in mpi4py
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:51:32AM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> /usr/lib/$ARCH/libm.so is no longer a symlink in 2.22-2, thus breaking packages
> which try to use it.
*.so is for use by ld, and is a linker script in this case. It have
been the case for libc.so for ages.
> In particular, mpi4py dynamically links libm.so leading an FTBFS #817884
Dynamic linking uses the _abiname_, which is libm.so.6 in this case, but
is may be libm.so.6.1 or libm.so.0.3 in other cases.
Bastian
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