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Date:      Fri, 04 Apr 1997 11:00:57 -0500
From:      Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Elf-Kit and dynamic loading
Message-ID:  <334525B9.167EB0E7@servtech.com>
References:  <5i0j1d$jtk@news.itfs.nsk.su> <19970403191209.52889@keltia.freenix.fr> <5i2k5h$4jb@news.itfs.nsk.su>

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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



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