On Jan 24, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Jed Davis wrote:

> I see, a few minutes after posting that, NetBSD ld's -soname option
> and the associated ELF feature, which is mostly the same as the
> feature I described... except that it's not used by default.

It is used when building a shared library.  See bsd.lib.mk.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>