[cffi-devel] librt soname

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> 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