[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] build: remove script compatibility symlinks

[Dave Airlie]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
> The symlinks for compatibility with old scripts assumes
> sysv shared library versioning and breaks other systems.
>
> For example OpenBSD uses sunos 4 style .so.major.minor
> versioning so the targets with ln will fail.
>
> Fixes bug 63269.
>

totally nak.

My fix you mean avoids?

A lot of developers use this feature, I do wonder if maybe we can move
it behind a configure switch though as I think it also causes some
rpaths to be emitted that I think distro packages would like to avoid.

Dave.