On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:42:43PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: | Hi, | How do programs determine what version of a shared (.so) library | they get when run?
The compiler/linker determines it when the binary is compiled. Use
'ldd' to see what libraries a given executable is linked against.
The symlink thing is so that the compiler's command line arguments
don't need to know the version (just, eg, -lgtk) and then the
compiler/linker follows the symlinks to resolve the actual file needed
to run the resultant binary.
HTH,
-D
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