On 15/08/12 12:37, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Jonas Maebe wrote: > >>> 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. >> >> The official way to get the unversioned symbolic links is to install >> the -dev or -devel package for that library. Of course, you're not >> supposed to require end-users to do that. > > Does not always work, e.g. in the case of Debian. -dev will install the > .h and .a files, but won't necessarily set up unversioned symlinks.
I've never found a -dev package that doesn't set up symlinks in many years of using Debian for development. (Except if only static versions of a specific library exists, obviously). Could you give an example? Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
