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Re: egcs-1.1b/Solaris 2.5.1: problems with version numbers in dynamic libraries
- To: papadopo at shfj dot cea dot fr (Dimitri PAPADOPOULOS-ORFANOS)
- Subject: Re: egcs-1.1b/Solaris 2.5.1: problems with version numbers in dynamic libraries
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 12:21:51 -0600
- cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199809081540.RAA13516@orcanie.shfj.cea.fr>you write:
> I have problems using dynamic libraries with version numbers.
> Here is a small exeample with a dynamic library "library"
> version 1.0 and a program "exe" which tries to use it:
> % g++ -fpic -c exe.cc
> % g++ -fpic -c library.cc
> % g++ -shared -o liblibrary.so.1.0 library.o
> % ln -s liblibrary.so.1.0 liblibrary.so
> % g++ -o exe exe.o -L/home/papadopo/TOTO -llibrary
> %
>
> The problem is that "exe" is linked against "liblibrary.so"
> instead of "liblibrary.so.1.0":
> % ldd exe
> liblibrary.so => ./liblibrary.so
> [...]
> %
>
> This was not the case with egcs-1.0.2:
> % ldd exe
> liblibrary.so.1.0 => ./liblibrary.so.1.0
> [...]
> %
>
> The program won't run unless "liblibrary.so" is in the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. "liblibrary.so.1.0" won't do.
>
> Is this a bug? Am I missing something?
This seems more like a linker issue. egcs does not (to the best of
my knowledge) only specifies -llibrary to the linker and it is up to
the linker to select the appropriate library.
jeff