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Re: ld.so and bad symlinks from other libs



On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:

>  I am wondering about something now though.  Tell me if I'm wrong.
> There should be three directory entries for each shared library.
> eg:
> libreadline.so.2.1
> libreadline.so.2 -> libreadline.so.2.1
> libreadline.so -> libreadline.so.2.1  (or should this point to so.2 ?)
> 
>  What is the correct configuration?

The above is correct. If you link the .so to the .so.2 there are some
loader conditions that will fail because of the double link. Each link
should be to the actual library rather than an intermediate link.

Luck,

Dwarf

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