Am 13.08.2017 17:42 schrieb "Fred van Stappen" <fi...@hotmail.com>: > > Hello Martin. > > Description of libx11-dev package (in /DEBIAN/control). > > Package: libx11-dev > ... > Description: > > This package contains the development headers for the library found in libx11-6. > Non-developers likely have little use for this package. > ... > > Afaik, fpc does not use the C headers (I did not find it) nor fpc does not develop/change anything inside the libX11 code. > Maybe, but I have lot of doubt, fpc could need the C headers to compile himself. > But the compiled fpc should not need it. > > So, imho, in the case of fpc, they should not use libX11.so but libX11.so.6 when linking things with the binary fpc.
The *-dev packages also contain the symbolic link from the library without version to the versioned one. This *is* the way to do this as the names of the library will change with every version. Regards, Sven
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