Hi, Andreas Rottmann <a.rottm...@gmx.at> writes:
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >> Aidan Gauland <aidal...@no8wireless.co.nz> writes: >> >>> I'm trying to use SDL through Guile's dynamic FFI. There's a slight >>> nuisance with the procedure `dynamic-link': the name of the so file on >>> my system (Debian squeeze) is `libSDL-1.2.so.0' >> >> Isn’t it a packaging bug? There should be a >> ‘libSDL-1.2.so’ -> ‘libSDL-1.2.so.0’ symlink. >> > Only in the -dev package, which should not be required for running Guile > programs that excercise the FFI. It is also good practice to use the > entire SONAME of the library in the Guile program, as to avoid random > breakage when the ABI changes (which does imply a SONAME bump on > sanely-maintained libraries). Unfortunately, I think this cannot be done portably, because the mapping of a library’s set of supported interfaces to the SONAME and file name is system-dependent, at least when using Libtool. Thanks, Ludo’.
