Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Hi all,
Linux-PAM installs the following libraries into the /lib directory: libpam, libpamc and libpam_misc. Both static and dynamic libs are installed.
The instructions move the .a libs to /usr/lib and create .so symlinks to the /lib/libname.so.0.78 files in /usr/lib as well.
What I'm curious about is why the .so symlinks are created as there are already these .so symlinks in /lib. Typically, the .so symlinks in /lib are removed and appropriate symlinks in /usr/lib are then made.
However, with Linux-PAM we end up so .so symlinks in both /lib and /usr/lib.
Should the /lib .so symlinks be removed?
If not, do we need to create these same symlinks in /usr/lib?
Programs like login use PAM and must have the PAM libraries available even if /usr is not mounted, so the .so files must be available in /lib. Symlinks within or to /lib are ok.
However, I do not know of a reason for the .so files to be in /usr/lib either as a symlink or a regular file.
-- Bruce
.so files belong in /usr/lib .so.version belong in /lib.
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