On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:41:48AM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:28:29PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: > > The problem seems to be with older distros that have libexpat.so.0 > > instead of libexpat.so.1. People have found that it works if they > > symlink libexpat.so.0 to libexpat.so.1. > > It's not just older distros. Gentoo has libexpat.so.0 also. libexpat is > version 1.95.7 btw. > > Why does the build system link with .1 anyway? Does it have two versions > of libexpat installed and the linker does this automagically or does the > distro package add some patch to expat forcing the name to .1? Gentoo's > expat doesn't seem to have any patches related to this.
The build system is running Debian Unstable: /usr/lib/libexpat.a /usr/lib/libexpat.la /usr/lib/libexpat.so -> libexpat.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 -> libexpat.so.1 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 -> libexpat.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.0.0 $ dpkg -l 'libexpat*' un libexpat-dev <none> (no description available) un libexpat0-dev <none> (no description available) ii libexpat1 1.95.6-6 XML parsing C library - runtime library ii libexpat1-dev 1.95.6-6 XML parsing C library - development kit > > Can we just link with libexpat.so instead? > > So someone should just relink the build system's libexpat with -soname > libexpat.so? The latest binaries should have libexpat statically linked now. Jose Fonseca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel