Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.stripped failing check for lua

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:06:59 -0600, "Derek 
Scherger" <address@hidden> said:

derek> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Zack Weinberg <address@hidden> wrote:
derek> 
derek> > Debian:
derek> >
derek> > $ (cd /usr/lib && ls -l liblua*)
derek> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 324860 2008-01-26 08:12 liblua5.1.a
derek> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    825 2008-01-26 08:12 liblua5.1.la
derek> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 2008-04-01 11:39 liblua5.1.so ->
derek> > liblua5.1.so.0.0.0
derek> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 2008-03-31 07:09 liblua5.1.so.0 ->
derek> > liblua5.1.so.0.0.0
derek> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 171696 2008-01-26 08:12 liblua5.1.so.0.0.0
derek> > $ (cd /usr/lib/pkgconfig && ls -l *lua*)
derek> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 857 2008-01-26 08:12 lua5.1.pc
derek> >
derek> 
derek> Wow, that's odd. I thought the version numbers were supposed to come 
*after*
derek> the .so, where all those, um, numbers are?

Yes.  However, it seems like some packages make the library version
part of the library *name*, to make sure that you link against exactly
that version and none else.

Why they do so for lua, I've no idea...

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