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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:57:18PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
  | On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Luke Mewburn wrote:
  | > This would result in:
  | > 	usr/lib/libz.so		-> ../../lib/libz.so
  | > 	usr/lib/libz.so.0	-> /lib/libz.so.0
  | > 	usr/lib/libz.so.0.3	-> /lib/libz.so.0.3
  |=20
  | Why not:
  |=20
  |  	usr/lib/libz.so		-> ../../lib/libz.so
  |  	usr/lib/libz.so.0	-> libz.so
  |  	usr/lib/libz.so.0.3	-> libz.so
  |=20
  | or
  |=20
  |  	usr/lib/libz.so		-> libz.so.0.3
  |  	usr/lib/libz.so.0	-> libz.so.0.3
  |  	usr/lib/libz.so.0.3	-> ../../lib/libz.so.0.3
  |=20
  | as we have right now? Yes, one more level of indirection - but it keeps
  | working, and rebuilding/relinking fixes this.

Because it introduces an unnecessarily symlink lookup from libz.so.0
to libz.so.3 for programs compiled before the libraries were moved
to /lib.

My suggestion retains the minimal run-time impact on those programs
of the current method, whilst fixes your compile time issue.

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