Hi Keith, * Keith Packard wrote on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:47:37AM CEST: > On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 08:31 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > First, to stay with your GNU/Linux example, unless you also have > > libXaw.so.6 as symlink, how will ld.so find your library (as installed > > library; or alternatively as user-installed test version below $HOME)? > > The current ELF shared library mechanism in glibc uses SONAMEs > exclusively when locating libraries. The filename is irrelevant.
No. If a DSO with matching SONAME is already mapped, ld.so is done. If not, it searches for a library with a file name which matches the SONAME, unless the SONAME -> file name pair is listed in /etc/ld.so.cache. That's why I asked how you would work with uninstalled or user-installed (for testing) libraries. Please note that "ldconfig -n" sets the appropriate symlinks which contain the SONAMEd file name if not present. So, you'd end up with libXaw6.la, and libXaw6.so.6.0.1 libXaw6.so.6 libXaw6.so libXaw.so.6 all pointing to the same file. I might still have completely misunderstood you here -- please correct me if I'm wrong. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
