Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> writes: Ah, OK. Sorry I didn't know. But then I have a question: how do binaries find the shared lib without the link? i.e. if I ever create a binary with -lGLU, how does the binary find libGLU.so.1.3 if libGLU.so does not exist? I suppose it's okay to close the bug report. BTW, thanks for the quick response. -- Ludovic Brenta.