[ILUG] linking & versions

[Dave Airlie]

-soname comes to mind... I hope this is enough info to point you in the
right direction..

Dave.

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, John P. Looney wrote:

>  I've a gcc line like;
>
>     gcc -o libthing.so.1.2.4 -shared *.lo
>
>  Now, when I copy the shared lib into /usr/lib, and run ldconfig, it's not
> doing
>
>  ln -s /usr/lib/libthing.so.1.2.4 /usr/lib/libthing.so.1.2
>  ln -s /usr/lib/libthing.so.1.2.4 /usr/lib/libthing.so.1
>  ln -s /usr/lib/libthing.so.1.2.4 /usr/lib/libthing.so
>
>  like I expected. Am I silly to be expecting this, or do I have to
> explicitly set the version number of a shared library ?
>
> Kate
>
>

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