[csw-maintainers] Symlinks to shared libraries

[James Lee]

On 25/11/09, 10:43:11, Maciej "(Matchek)" Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> 
wrote regarding [csw-maintainers] Symlinks to shared libraries:

> I just got a review of my NSPR build from a NSPR/NSS developer,
> Wan-Teh Chang.  One of the comments was to stop creating a symlink to
> a shared library.  By default, nspr creates bare *.so files.  My build
> script renamed them to *.so.$(MINOR_VERSION) and created symlinks from
> *.so to *.so.$(MINOR_VERSION).

>  > ls -l /opt/csw/lib/nspr/libnspr4.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         13 Nov 23 23:46
> /opt/csw/lib/nspr/libnspr4.so -> libnspr4.so.8
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       324344 Nov 23 23:02
> /opt/csw/lib/nspr/libnspr4.so.8

> Do we have any policy which requires creating symlinks?

It's not about CSW policy but how ld and ld.so.1 work and versioning.
What's the SONAME?



James.