Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:34:01 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: gnat@frii.com Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Libraries Message-ID: <199804131634.KAA06523@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:25:24 MDT." <199804131525.JAA21474@prometheus.frii.com> References: <199804131525.JAA21474@prometheus.frii.com>
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In message <199804131525.JAA21474@prometheus.frii.com> gnat@frii.com writes: : 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? The *.so symbolic link kludge is from the SYS V. FreeBSD doesn't need these links as it uses a SunOS 4.x style of library naming. autoconfig handles this correctly for other programs. Maybe GNOME is using autoconfig incorrectly. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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