* Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However the problem ist the number designation. If there's a link > > libcrypt.so-> libcrypt.so.1 it works without the hack. > > If there is no such link, then you can't link anything against that > library, end of story. I presume you only reproduced this by removing > the symlink?
Yep, but there's no symlink in /lib but only in /usr/lib. So the user's system is actually broken? Then we shouldn't jump in, sure. > The libfoo.so.N filenames are only used directly by the run-time linker, > they correspond to the soname which is extracted from reading > "libfoo.so" at compile-time. Thanks, nd
