On 16 Mar 2001 10:44:36 +0300, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> runtime packages are expected to include versioned libraries (linfoo.so.X.Y.Z)
> and development packages should include plain library (libfoo.so) so
> that -lfoo works. But libfoo.so will most probably be just a symlink to
> libfoo.so.X.Y.Z.
>
> You can remove libfoo.so and it should not (generally) impact your programs
> that should be looking for versioned libraries.
Thank you to everyone for the explanation. I was missing the whole
versioning part of the library names. It just worried me when I saw .so
files in the devel packages.
Thanks much!
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Steve Fox
http://k-lug.com
