8 Dec
2001
8 Dec
'01
10:20
On Saturday 08 December 2001 05.12, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
Sorry. yes, the -devel package is the correct place to get the headers and the missing symlink most likely a %post_install bug in our package. I'll report it...
OK, thanks. But the more general question is this: I'm seeing that some packages seem to respect where a .so points to, and others, like ldconfig, jumps straight to .so.1, so I'd like to know what the rule is. How does the linker determin which lib to open when it's been dynamically linked to -lsomething. Sometimes it seems to be libsomething.so, other times libsomething.so.1. There must be a general rule to this //Anders