On Wednesday 04 February 2004 11:18 am, Luke Mewburn wrote:
[...]
> How about we do this:
>     *	use absolute symlinks for the runtime libraries
>     	libfoo.so.M and libfoo.so.M.N.
>     *	use relative symlinks for the link-time library libfoo.so.
> ?
>
> 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

I think

	usr/lib/libz.so	-> ../../lib/libz.so
	usr/lib/libz.so.0	-> /lib/libz.so.0.3

is all that is needed.

ld.elf_so uses the soname to find the library and I can't think of anything 
that directly references the real library object.

Nick