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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

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