> Package: libgdbm1 > Version: 1.7.3-11 > > Hi, > I believe that the shared library exported by this package > (libgdbm.so.1.7.3) is basically the same thing that other linux > distributions (slackware and redhat in particular) choose to ship as > libgdm.so.2.0.0 ... Perhaps Debian too should do this? In the current > state, dynamically linked programs compiled under other distributions > look for a libgdbm.so.2 under debian and fail because they can't find > it.
That is a bug in their distributions. At http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jo95004/liblist.html Daniel Barlow (maintainer of GCC-HOWTO and such) maintains the List of Libraries, which is intended to get .so names consistent accross distributions. It's entry for gdbm is: gdbm Description: The GNU dbm library Author/Maintainer: Keeper of the soname: Christopher Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source from: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu Binaries from: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs Filename: libgdbm.so.1.7.3 soname: libgdbm.so.1 Building as a shared library: This patch, also included in the binary distribution. Notes: More information: Greetings, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
