Building and linking shared libaries formultipledifferentversions of UNIX

[David Collier-Brown]

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >       Yes: This is really a convention, used to allow easy
> >       updates.  We create libFoo.so.93 and link it to libFoo.so
> >       When we upgrade, we leave 93 in place, add 94
> >       and link 94 to libFoo.so
> >
> >       If an existing program needs version libFoo.so.93, it can get it,
> >       but by default it just uses libFoo.so as the thing to link
> >       to.  Does that help?
> 
> OK, great explanation. What action do I need to take when I install
> libsmbclient.so.x.0?
> 
> Do I need to run ldconfig, and then create the link if it doesn't already
> exist?

	I think you do that in the opposite order, actually..
	ldconfig updates an in-memory table in older SunOSs
	(I don't have one on my Solaris 8 system).

--dave

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