On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Nick Hudson wrote:

: OK. So I did some testing on top of reading the libtool source and I now
: see that strange things happen when release is also specified. The
: version information is included but all sorts links are also created.
: For example
:
: libfoo.so -> libfoo-release.so.0.0

This is partly because of "-soname", which ELF has, but a.out doesn't.

Libtool is /supposed to/ have ways to work around this by putting
information into the .la file.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>  *  http://www.wasabisystems.com/
-- Speed, stability, security, and support.  Wasabi NetBSD:  Run with it.