On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:01:11PM -0800, Marc Matteo wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >Could you point me to discussion about this decision (so I don't write > >about stuff already beaten to death here)? > > In OpenBSD (at least) the library name that matters is the stuff > between the "lib" and the ".so" so libfoo.so.4.0 and libfoo-1.8.so. > 4.0 are two distinctly different libraries. Symlinking them is stupid. > > So whatever the library name is supposed to be, either -lfoo or - > lfoo-1.8 is up to the software author, most here roll their eyes at > versioned libnames, but we accept them... just don't symlink them. > > Marc Exactly, which means not removing the ability to create shared libs with the -release tag. This is a very bad idea. Just remove the symlinking.
// Brad
