On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Thomas Klausner wrote:

: After Alistair's recent change to make ELF PLISTs default, some
: programs have problems in the installation phase. In particular, I
: think of devel/xdelta (and some others) where the problem lies in the
: fact that they install a library 'libfoo.so.1.2.3', and libtool only
: generates symlinks for 'libfoo.so.1' and 'libfoo.so'.
:
: What is the proper target to fix -- the PLISTs (removing the
: 'libfoo.so.1.2' entries)

Remove the entries if a teeny version is used.  There are exactly *three*
parts to an ELF shlib:

libfoo.so.major.minor[.teeny] -> actual file (not used directly)
libfoo.so.major -> symlink used at runtime (thanks to -soname)
libfoo.so -> symlink used at link-time (during program compiles)

If a teeny version is used, there should *not* be a libfoo.so.major.minor
symlink; that file will never get used.

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