On 8/1/05, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is prompted by upgrading zlib to 1.2.3 (thanks to Matt for the > heads up). Everything in my system using a shared libz is linked > against libz.so.1 (good), but we persist in offering packages a symlink > from /usr/lib/libz.so to /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3 [ png bit me when I > overlooked that in my scripts ]. > > Should this symlink not point to /lib/libz.so.1 (itself a symlink, but > updated by zlib whenever it is installed) ? Alternatively, is the > symlink from /usr/lib totally unnecessary ? >
The libz.so is used during compilation only (for linking). Without the link from libz.so to the actual library, when you try to compile packages that link against libz (linker flag -lz), the compilation will fail (assuming you don't have a static zlib installed in which case the executable will link libz.a into the executable). -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
