[Bug 227939] devel/boost-python-libs vs ctypes.util.find_library

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227939

--- Comment #8 from Jan Beich <jbeich at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Wiktor Niesiobedzki from comment #4)
> ldconfig is responsible (at least on Linux) on setting the link to library realname

ldconfig on FreeBSD doesn't grok SONAME unlike ld.so aka rtld-elf. Many
libraries without .so.X symlinks actually use SONAME instead. As rtld-aout
doesn't support SONAME maybe ldconfig was simply overlooked as ELF wasn't
default on FreeBSD in the past.

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