On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:40:21AM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote: > Hmm - it strikes me that there may be a potential problem with > including .la archives with library packages. The filename for the > libtool file is independent of the version number of the library. ie, > libfish2 will ship with a libfish.la, and so will libfish3. This might > be an obstacle to installing multiple versions of the same library, > might it not?
No because the .la files only go into the -dev package for the library, and since two versions of the same libraries -dev package already need to conflict (because of the libfoo.so symlink) then there is no chance of a further conflict. Ben
