[cffi-devel] librt soname
Martin Simmons
martin at lispworks.com
Mon Jul 6 08:19:37 UTC 2009
>>>>> On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:35:56 +0100, Luís Oliveira said:
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Daniel Herring<dherring at tentpost.com> wrote:
> > - On linux, shared libraries are usually loaded by ld.so; see `man ld.so`.
> > CL probably couldn't find librt.so because it was in the less standard
> > /usr/lib directory whereas librt.so.1 was in /lib.
>
> IIUC, the problem is that the system in question had a librt.so.1 but
> not a librt.so.
That's quite normal on Linux. Libraries with no numbers such as librt.so
typically come from an optional "devel" package, which would only be installed
on development a machine, whereas librt.so.1 is the runtime library.
__Martin
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