Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: why doesn't readline-6 install libreadline.so symlink?
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:04:27
Message-Id: 200909260804.23537.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: why doesn't readline-6 install libreadline.so symlink? by Jonathan Callen
1 On Saturday 26 September 2009 02:03:38 Jonathan Callen wrote:
2 > I'm not completely sure, but I think it doesn't install that symlink
3 > because it (correctly) installs a /usr/lib/libreadline.so ldscript, that
4 > tells the linker to link against /lib/libreadline.so.6
5
6 correct
7
8 > so long as the linker looks at /usr/lib before /lib, which is usually the
9 > case, unless "-L/lib" is passed to ld (by way of gcc)
10
11 incorrect -- link order doesnt matter here with readline-6
12 -mike

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature