On 19/08/07, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > On 19/08/07, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Somebody in the thread at some point said: > >> > >>> ./libmylib.so.1 ln -s /usr/lib/libmylib.so.1 libmylib.so The > >>> requirement is /usr/lib directory will have : libmylib.so.x > >>> libmylib.so -> libmylib.so.x > >> Throw out your ln command altogether. Just place the .so in /usr/lib > >> and run /sbin/ldconfig in %post. It will make the symlinks according to > >> the library soname. > > > > That is false advise, however, since you want to create all necessary > > "false advice" is a bit hard on something that was accurate and solves > the problem in front of the poster. I didn't think about link > ownership, but that's less of a problem than no binaries out of your build. It doesn't solve the problem. It only tries to work around it. Running /sbin/ldconfig in %post and %postun is a MUST for packages which put shared libraries into run-time linker's search path. And think about it a bit more. If libmylib.so is put into /usr/lib and does not contain a proper SONAME, ldconfig won't create any symlink like libmylib.so.1. The result would be a poorly packaged rpm.
