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Re: darwin library_names_spec
From: |
Gary V. Vaughan |
Subject: |
Re: darwin library_names_spec |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:52:42 +0000 |
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Peter O'Gorman wrote:
| Even if you keep the old versions around, the dynamic linker can not
| find them, so they are never used unless you go playing with the
| symlinks by hand, it will only load libfoo.5.dylib, which in the normal
| scheme of things always points to the latest version of libfoo.5 that
| you installed.
|
| It is quite likely that other systems also have unnecessary symlinks,
| but I wouldn't have a clue as to which ones they are :)
Quite. Now that you have pointed out the additional symlink on darwin, I can
see the same problem on linux.
Open questions to the list: What is the purpose of creating a libfoo.x.y.z.so
when libfoo.so is enough for the compile time linker, and all but the newest
libfoo.x.y.z.so are ignored by the runtime linker? Where does the libfoo.x.so
symlink fit into this.
I really should buy myself a copy of linkers and loaders...
Cheers,
Gary.
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