Re: Hint for the special *.so.lsb* linker?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>]

Ralf Flaxa wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I remember HPA mentionning during our New York meeting that
> it would be quite easy to build a special linker for the LSB
> build system that would create the special *.so.lsb* SONAME.
> 
> So I thought I ask HPA and the people on this list again for a hint,
> because I am now at the point where I now have a set of sources for
> a sample implementation that I would like to self-host with such a
> special linker in oder to generate the requested libraries.
> 
> I nobody knows we will try to figure that out from the sources,
> but the binutils is one of the more complex packages, so I wanted
> to ask first ;-)
> 

In fact, the reason to keep the .so. in the name was so we wouldn't have
to modify ldconfig; I don't know of any tools which should need to be
modified.

	-hpa