Hi, On 15 August 2012 12:10, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > > The official way to get the unversioned symbolic links is to install the -dev > or > -devel package for that library. Of course, you're not supposed to require > end-users to do that.
Yes, I know that bit, but even as a developer, if I don't do actual Firebird or OpenSSL development (I don't work on those project, I simply use there libraries), I don't need to install those libraries. That is why my Ubuntu and OpenSUSE system didn't have the -devel packages for them installed. FCL-db and Synapse dynamically load those libraries on my development machines, so no -devel package requirement. > ... that the linker will hardcode in your application. The reasoning is that > your > application was written and tested against that version of the library, so > letting > it use arbitrary other versions is not a good idea. In a way I understand the reasoning for the unversioned symlink, I just don't know how best to handle it in my apps. I also don't know the rules as to which version the unversioned symlib will normally point to.I know my apps work with Firebird 2.1 and Firebird 2.5, so should I then change fcl-db to look for libfbclient.so.2 or libfbclient.so.2.0 - instead of the unversioned default. Because the unversioned default could very easily point to a v1.x library of Firebird, and that would be untested with my app (it will probably not work). > If you can work with multiple major versions, you can try to dynamically > load them all until you have found one that exists. OK, I'll take a look at this idea. That seems better, because then I know I am trying to load library versions my app is known to work with. I'm not so much concerned about my development system (I can fix that) - I am thinking more in line of when I deploy my apps. I want them to obviously work as easily as possible. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
