On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:49:52 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> I'd wager that xine has libxine statically linked and/or compiled in. > > > > No, libxine.so is just a symlink pointing to the real and versioned > > library file in the xine-lib package. This symlink is needed only when > > building software -- it's the link that makes the -lxine linker > > command work. > > Yes, Redhat and Fedora have always done this. > > The executables look for <library>.so.<version> and that is a symlink to > <library>.so.<full-version> in one of the ld.so.conf paths. It's the "right thing to do" and not specific to Red Hat or Fedora. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
