Hi, On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Philipp Thomas wrote:
*.so files are used by the link editor (ld) to create executables, they are not used at runtime, where the *.so.* files are used instead (and *.so usually are just softlinks to *.so.*).
I know of at least one package that uses the -revision flag to libtool which results in libsomething-x.y.z.so and an identical soname. So the rule to package .so files in -devel isn't always right.
It's a good rule of thumb, though. (It also breaks for dlopen() modules, though those don't belong into /usr/lib). And for Saschas problem it's exactly the correct solution. Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org