Re: [mp1] Linking confusion

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William McKee wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 07:00:36PM -0500, Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>>>I'm guessing that this goes for any libperl.so, e.g. libperl.so.5.6 or
>>>libperl.so.5.8. If so then it would explain the weird behavior that I've
>>>been getting when compiling mod_perl.
>>
>>Normally in addition to libperl.so.5.8 there will be a symlink to 
>>libperl.so. Applications normally link against .so and not .so.x.y, so an 
>>upgrade of that library will be possible w/o requiring the compilation of 
>>the former.
> 
> 
> Hmm, that's what I thought too and was creating a symlink from
> /usr/lib/libperl.so to the newly created one. I was still getting
> strange behavior though so moved them all out of /usr/lib. Seems a bit
> better now.

If the application links against a specific libperl.so.x.y that would 
explain that behavior.

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