On 06/09/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:18:18PM +0000, Edward B. DREGER wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
>
> I'd been going nuts trying to determine why I couldn't link against
> "libdb-4.4.so" and a few other libraries. The ones in question didn't
> show up via
>
> ldconfig -r
>
> although their respective directories _were_ found. (Yes, I even ran
> "ldconfig -R" for good measure.) ldconfig seems to "skip" libraries not
> of the form
>
> m/.+\.so\.[0-9]+/
>
> i.e.,
>
> libfoo.so.1
>
> is found, but
>
> libbar.so
> libsnuzzlycat.so.5.5
>
> are not.
>
> Bug or feature?
Feature.
> Is this what I get for straying from ports/packages?
> ;-)
Probably.
Some ports do seem to use this format:
$ ls /usr/local/lib | egrep '^lib.*\.so\..*\.'
libopenal.so.0.0.8
libportaudio.so.0.0.18
$ ls /usr/X11R6/lib | egrep '^lib.*\.so\..*\.'
libqt-mt.so.3.3
libqt-mt.so.3.3.5
libqui.so.1.0
libqui.so.1.0.0
Are you sure this format isn't legal?
MC
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