Building and linking shared libaries formultipledifferentversions of UNIX

[Richard Sharpe]

At 11:12 AM 5/16/01 -0400, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> 
>> 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).

Well, Under Linux, it seems that ldconfig makes the symbolic link from the
soname to the real name ... that is, if I copy libsmbclient.so.1.0 to
$(LIBDIR) and then run ldconfig (and $(LIBDIR) is in /etc/ld.so.conf),
ldconfig creates the symbolic link from libsmbclient.so.1 to
libsmbclient.so.1.0 ...

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
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