On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:27:02AM -0600, Jack Brown wrote:
> 
> Great explanation..

Thanks. :)

> The problem is that if you have lib-something.so in /lib and 
> lib-something.a in /usr/lib, then when a package goes looking for 
> lib-something to link into it's package it looks to /usr/lib sees the 
> lib-something.a file and then stops looking any further and links 
> against the static library instead of the dynamic one.

Aha! So there is a method to this madness. I hereby reject my claim to
organization. :)


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