Re: darwin library_names_spec

[Peter O'Gorman]

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Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
| But you can no longer keep several versions of the library installed at
| once.
| ~   Say I install 5:1:0 and 5:2:0, under the current scheme we have:
|
| ~    libfoo.5.0.0.dylib
| ~    libfoo.5.0.1.dylib
| ~    libfoo.5.0.2.dylib
| ~    libfoo.5.dylib->libfoo.5.0.2.dylib
| ~    libfoo.dylib->libfoo.5.0.2.dylib
|
| I think the question is:  Do we need to keep this many versions around?
| If we
| do, then your proposal is void, and we need to figure out another way to
| solve
| your problem.  If not, then several of the other versioning schemes are
| also
| broken and need to be fixed too.

Even if you keep the old versions around, the dynamic linker can not
find them, so they are never used unless you go playing with the
symlinks by hand, it will only load libfoo.5.dylib, which in the normal
scheme of things always points to the latest version of libfoo.5 that
you installed.

It is quite likely that other systems also have unnecessary symlinks,
but I wouldn't have a clue as to which ones they are :)

Peter
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