ELF versioning is handled by ONAME tag in the library .so which specifies an
exact library name for linking. This is typically something like libx.so.6
which is a symlink to libx.so.6.1.2. So unless libpcap.so was built with an
ONAME of libpcap.so.0 the default is an exact version match, i.e.
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On Jun 13, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Gruenhut wrote:
To be honest, at this point I’m totally mystified. My (naive)
understanding of shared objects in Linux was that as long as the
major version number was the same, the loader should look up
whatever is present on the system.
That's how
I am working on 2 Linux machines, compiling the same source code, and linking
with -lpcap. The programs work fine on the machines they were compiled on; one
uses libpcap.so.0.8.3, and the other uses libpcap.so.0.9.4.
The problem is that I would like to run binaries from each one on the other
