ldconfig / dynamic linker hints library name conventions

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 00:40, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > From the ldconfig manpage:
> >
> > "Filenames must conform to the lib*.so.[0-9] pattern in order to
> > be added to the hints file."
> >
> > I wonder if there actually are any compelling reasons to keep this
> > behaviour -
>
> Yes there are.  Not all shared libraries are meant to be seen
> by ldconfig.  

This isn't very convincing. The reality looks much more like this: Many 
software packages out there assume ldconfig and workalikes to be as liberal 
with regards to shared library filenames as linux' ldconfig (or NetBSD's 
ld.elf_so) and install libraries named lib*.so.[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+. If 
libtool weren't as widely used as it is for building shared libraries, this 
would make for a bigger problem than it is now. Packages that actually do 
install shared libraries which are exclusively dlloaded usually put those in 
a location where they won't be picked up by ldconfig, like a subdirectory in 
PREFIX/lib.

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