Hi, This issue has come up before in a fcl-db discussion regarding the Firebird Database, where the libfbclient.so was missing from many Linux distros (eg: Ubuntu 10.04), but a libfbclient.so.2.0 was available instead. FCL-DB only checks for the unversioned shared libraries, thus your application will probably not run out of the box.
I've stumbled across this problem again today with OpenSUSE 12.1 and Synapse where I send emails from inside my applications via a secure SMTP connection. The Synapse library is looking for libssl.so, but by default OpenSUSE only has libssl.so.1.0.0. In both these cases, I manually created unversioned symlinks to those libraries, and that got my applications working again. This is not ideal, but I don't know how else to handle this. Does any body know what is the "most correct" way of handling this? Am I supposed to modify my copies of fcl-db and synapse to look for specific versions of these shared libraries, or should I somehow add a function in my application installation that checks in unversioned shared libraries exist, and if not, try and create those (which would require root access - and might cause problems an client installs). Anybody know of any Linux documentation URL that explain when unversioned shared libraries are used and when not, and how applications are supposed to handle this? -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal