[cells-gtk-devel] New cells-gtk capabilities and new tarball]

[Andras Simon]

On Tue, 31 May 2005 rm at seid-online.de wrote:

>
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:09:28AM +0200, Andras Simon wrote:

>> It's even worse than that. Some Linux distributions (Fedora, Debian)
>> don't have .so symlinks to the various .so.x.y.z files (or not to all
>> of them). This is not gtk-specific, I ran into this with
>> postgresql before.
>
> No, no. no. That's _not_ worse. These links are an essential part of the inner
> workings of the dynamic loader (/lib/ld.so.1, which is both a library and an
> application) for (i assume) _all_ distributions of that OS.
> These links are set up (and updated) by the /sbin/ldconfig utility. This is a needed
> to support versioned libraries. An application that asks for an unspecific version
> of library 'foo' will get whatever  foo.so points to (the latest version iff your box
> is configured correctly). Asking for a specific version will result in foo.<version>.so.

That's the problem. There's no foo.so, only foo.so.0.1.23
What should CMUCL and ACL load?

Andras