On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Jonathan Stone wrote:

: I assume you're not acutally linking two digits of ELF version number
: into the final binary? ELF version numbers are hard-bound: link
: against libfoo.so.0.0, upgrade to libfoo.so.0.1, remove libfoo.so.0.0,
: and then the linked binary fails to find libfoo.so.0.0.

Not true in the presence of -soname.  If -soname is set, that is the name
that will be used when searching at runtime (even if a .major.minor is
completely specified at link time).

All our libraries, and those made by libtool, properly use -soname now (but
they didn't at first...).

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