On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 03:21:00PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I am looking at committing a port which creates the following files: > > /usr/local/lib/libGmsh.so > /usr/local/lib/libGmsh.so.0 > /usr/local/lib/libGmsh.so.2.7 > /usr/local/lib/libGmsh.so.2.7.0 > > libGmsh.so is a link to libGmsh.so.0, which is a link to libGmsh.so.2.7, > which is a link to libGmsh.so.2.7.0. > > My concern is that this will confuse ldconfig. Is my concern justified?
It will not confuse the os at all but it will confuse ldconfig -r which is not able to list libraries ending with more that one digit. Which is just informational, so not a big deal except that bsd.port.mk is not clever enough to correctly deal with libraries. so only detection from ports will be confused, all the rest will work. https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/fix_lib_depends for more details regards, Bapt
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