I have intalled libevent 1.3c and 1.3d on my machine, and I have some
questions about the naming used for libevent.
In my lib-directory I get the following:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 22 Sep 24 21:09 libevent-1.3c.so.1 ->
libevent-1.3c.so.1.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 160824 Sep 24 21:09 libevent-1.3c.so.1.0.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 22 Sep 24 19:21 libevent-1.3d.so.1 ->
libevent-1.3d.so.1.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 303856 Sep 24 19:21 libevent-1.3d.so.1.0.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 22 Sep 24 19:21 libevent.so ->
libevent-1.3d.so.1.0.3
When I look at the dynamic section in the libraries I see that it
records libevent-1.3[cd].so.1 as the soname, so if I link my application
with libevent it will require the same version of libevent to be located
at runtime.
I thought that it was normal to name the libraries like
lib<name>.so.<major>.<minor>.<micro> (eg: libevent.so.1.3.4) and create
symbolic links so the application may pick up the newest version of the
library (with the correct ABI) without re-linking the application.
Is there a good reason for not doing so?
Trond
(I looked in the archive and found
http://monkeymail.org/archives/libevent-users/2006-March/000114.html,
but I did not find a response to the question).
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