On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 8:38 AM Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 10:46 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > > One bit of weirdness is that I may have found another ICU problem. > > Reported as: > > https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-22216
I'm no expert on loader/linker arcana but I have a feeling this is a dead end. It's an ancient Unix or at least elf-era Unix convention that SONAMEs have major versions only, because major versions are the basis of ABI stability. As a workaround with an already built ICU, I think you could use elf editing tools like "patchelf" to change the SONAME and DT_NEEDED to include the minor version. Or you could convince the build/link scripts to set them that way in the first place, but no distro would want to do that as it would cause lots of executables to fail to load when the next ICU minor comes out.
