Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:19:00PM +0100, Andreas Fester wrote:
> Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >> ./libgnomevfs-pthread.so
> >> [...]
> > No. *.so are linker symlinks used at compiled time. The compile flags -lfoo
> Not this one:
> $ ls -la /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-pthread.so
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34624 2005-09-02 01:53 /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-pthread.so
> So this must be a special case ...
No, bugs aren't really all that special. They're a dime a dozen, in fact.
:)
> > Too, there are actually two forms of library soname file naming used:
> > libfoo.so.1.2.3
> > and
> > libfoo-1.2.3.so
> Only the first one is mentioned in the various packaging guides,
> so I suppose that the format libfoo-1.2.3.so only exists for historical
> reasons, right? IMHO new packages have to use the form libfoo.so.1.2.3 ?
No, .so.x.y.z is the traditional format; embedding the library version in
the part of the name before the .so is a relatively new innovation that
hasn't been adopted too widely outside of certain circles (such as GNOME).
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