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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 11:00:57 -0500
From: Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Elf-Kit and dynamic loading
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Nickolay N. Dudorov wrote:
> Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> wrote:
> [...]
> > Are you sure you have the right naming for the libraries ?
> 
>         Yes - it turns out that because I build and install elf-libc
> from (copy of) FreeBSD-2.2 sources there was no libc.so --> libc.so.3.0
> link.  After I make all libXX.so --> libXX.so.M.N links my test
> programs builds as dynamic.
> 

As an ELF newbie, it seems curious to me that the ELF linker requires a
symlink to the shared lib that does not have the version in its name. 
Does ELF keep track of the shared lib versions?

-Shawn