On numbers as part of library names
Colin Guthrie
gmane at colin.guthr.ie
Wed Aug 8 10:02:45 PDT 2007
Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 18:14 +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
>> And yes, the library names
>> must be different because otherwise you end up with
>>
>> libpixman.so.<gobbledigook>
>>
>> and
>>
>> libpixman.so.<different gobbledigook>
>>
>> and nobody will know what is actually installed, or which of the
>> libpixman.so's are compatible, or what "-lpixman" means.
>
> The rule is that, for libpixman.so.X.A and libpixman.so.Y.B
> if (X == Y) they are ABI compatible.
>
> Xav
I agree on this one.
What "-lpixman" means will depend on what version of the development
package I have installed (of which I can only install one version at a
time).
This is fairly standard I thought?
Col
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