Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:25:24 -0600 (MDT) From: gnat@frii.com To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Libraries Message-ID: <199804131525.JAA21474@prometheus.frii.com>
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I don't know if this has been raised before or not. I'm working on the gtk port of Mozilla, and also trying to compile GNOME for FreeBSD. The biggest problem I've run into so far has been the non-standard naming of libraries. libtiff34 is the best example. The GNOME autoconf code looks for libtiff.a or libtiff.so, *not* libtiff34.* I'm pretty sure the libtiff34 naming thing is bogus. I'm less certain of this shared library weirdness: the installation of a libpng.so.2.1 without installing libpng.so as a soft link seems wrong to me. A lot of the code I've seen on the net (and, in this case, GNOME) wants to link in libwhatever.so and not bother with the version numbers. Is there a standard for this? Could someone point me towards it? Thanks, Nat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message
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