On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:38:15AM -0000, mycae wrote: > Thankyou for the info, I don't suppose you could point me to the > difference between a DSO and a normal SO, I was of the opinion that > these were different names for the same thing, a'la
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/dso.html , > and the debian policy manual recommended soversioning in filenames by > the suffix method: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-shlibs > This would be consistent with output from file, which reports this DSO > to be the same as a soversioned SO A DSO is a "Dynamic shared object"; the term is used to describe objects that are dynamically loaded at runtime by the application, *not* those that the application links to and are loaded by the runtime linker at startup. In other words, a DSO is something you would load with dlopen(). > ---- > u...@user-desktop:/usr/lib/odbc$ file libtdsodbc.so > libtdsodbc.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), > dynamically linked, stripped > u...@user-desktop:/usr/lib/odbc$ file /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: symbolic link to `libstdc++.so.6.0.13' > u...@user-desktop:/usr/lib/odbc$ file /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13 > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 > (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped > u...@user-desktop:/usr/lib/odbc$ > ---- The difference between them is not what 'file' reports as output; the difference is how they're intended to be used. ODBC drivers are not shared libraries, and should not carry sonames because ODBC implements a backwards- and forwards-compatible interface that *never* needs to support multiple, binary-incompatible versions of this driver. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675758 Title: libtdsodbc.so misnamed -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
