From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 13 09:34:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28677 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA28584; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:34:06 GMT (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0yOmB2-0005xH-00; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:33:48 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA06523; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:34:01 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804131634.KAA06523@harmony.village.org> To: gnat@frii.com Subject: Re: Libraries Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.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> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:34:01 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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