On 06/02/2013 02:51 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sun, 2013-06-02 at 14:13 -0700, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
On 06/02/2013 02:00 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
is non-standard and not compliant. The standard structure should be:
libphobos2.so.0.63 the file
libphobos2.so.0 a symbolic link to libphobos2.so.0.63
libphobos2.so a symbolic link to libphobos2.so.0
what is libphobos2.0
It is the soname concept. A soname specifies the number of API
compatible versions. Basically it relates to the major version of an
API.
cf. for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soname
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#shlibpkgs
$ objdump -p libphobos2.so | grep SONAME
SONAME libphobos2.so.0.63
