------- Comment #1 from ludovic at ludovic-brenta dot org 2009-08-01 14:50 ------- To aggravate the violation of the Law of Least Astonishment, GCC's misbehavior is even inconsistent:
libfoo.so.1.2 becomes libfoo.so.1 but libfoo.so.1.2.3 is honored exactly. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40025