En/na Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit:
Doing a search on http://packages.ubuntu.com, it seems that only the 'firebird2.0-dev' and 'firebird2.1-dev' packages include the symlink libfbclient.so. The standard firebird client and server packages only install libfbclient.so.2
This is standard practice on debian, mandriva and probably other distributions. The idea(if I'm not wrong) is that the bare .so file is only used by the linker at compile time, so you can install packages with various versions of the same library to be used by other binary packages (that only use the versioned .so file) but only develop for one (usually, but not always, the latest one) by installing just one -dev (or -devel in mandriva) package that just has the simlink to the corresponding versioned .so file, the headers and other files to be used by the linker (.a, .la I think). So, in their view (and I cannot tell if it's right or wrong) a final program shouldn't look for the bare .so file but only depend on the versioned one. That way if you make a binary package, it usually will automatically (or manually if the packaging system isn't able to determine the dependency by analyzing the executable) depend on the correct version of the library package.
Bye -- Luca _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
