>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No, I haven't. I have little experience with these systems, so I don't > even know if this scheme will work. Hence my question to this list where > I imagine there are people with experience on those systems. The key > question is whether the system uses SONAMES or filenames to locate > libraries. Even if they do use file names to locate libraries, can't you continue to additionaly ship filenames matching the SONAMES? I mean having a symlink libXaw.so.6.0.0 -> libXaw6.so.6.0.0. In fact, thinking further about the scenario you presented with version-less file names: ======= Version 6 Xaw -> libXaw.so.6.0.1, libXaw.so.6 Version 7 Xaw -> libXaw.so.7.0.0, libXaw.so.7 Version 8 Xaw -> libXaw.so.8.0.0, libXaw.so.8, libXaw.so ======= Can't you just manually create and ship versioned .so file names? Like ======= Version 6 Xaw -> libXaw.so.6.0.1, libXaw.so.6, libXaw6.so Version 7 Xaw -> libXaw.so.7.0.0, libXaw.so.7, libXaw7.so Version 8 Xaw -> libXaw.so.8.0.0, libXaw.so.8, libXaw8.so, libXaw.so ======= You need to create libXaw6.so -> libXaw.so.6 links manually after libtool. This seems to be a simpler approach to tweaking the SONAMEs that libtool generates. Of course, I might still be missing something here, so I'll stop with this mail :-). > And, of course, we actively discourage anyone from using any version of > Xaw; it's a terrible library. Then why make this any easier ;-). What's wrong with the current scheme of not shipping .so symlinks with the library but shipping them in a -dev package, one for each library major version? The -dev packages do conflict with each other. This already makes it possible, if not easy, to link to older libraries for some one who really cares. Ganesan -- Ganesan Rajagopal (rganesan at debian.org) | GPG Key: 1024D/5D8C12EA Web: http://employees.org/~rganesan | http://rganesan.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
