[SCIM] Library filenames

[Ming Hua]

Hi James,

I found out the libraries from SCIM are using a strange file name
convention.  Take the main library, libscim, for example, I am seeing
the following filenames installed (scim 0.9.6):
    /usr/lib/libscim-0.9.so.0.0.6
    /usr/lib/libscim-0.9.so.0 (symlink to libscim-0.9.so.0.0.6)
    /usr/lib/libscim.so (symlink to libscim-0.9.so.0)
    /usr/lib/libscim.a
    /usr/lib/libscim.la
Why are runtime libraries and development libraries using different
names?  Is it intentional, or I messed something up in my compiling?

(This is also true for CVS head, just with -0.99 suffix instead)

Thanks,
Ming
2004.06.17

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