Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 08:42:42 -0500 From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Message-ID: <36B700D2.41C67EA6@ics.com> References: <199901311851.KAA07228@vashon.polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote: > > To be recognized by ldconfig, ldconfig for ELF should just go away. > an ELF shared library must have a name > that ends with ".so." followed by exactly one version number, like > this: > > libfoo.so.12 > On other ELF systems (since I haven't looked that closely at FreeBSD's ELF implementation) the version is a string. The string may have any value, e.g. "foo", "a-really-long-and-silly-string" or "3". The linker doesn't care, it merely records the fully qualified name of the library, including the version string, in the program's NEEDED. The run-time loader doesn't care, it loads the exact library by name, as recorded in the program's NEEDED. -- Kaleb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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