Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: why doesn't readline-6 install libreadline.so symlink?

[Zac Medico]

Jonathan Callen wrote:
> I'm not completely sure, but I think it doesn't install that symlink
> because it (correctly) installs a /usr/lib/libreadline.so ldscript, that
> tells the linker to link against /lib/libreadline.so.6, so long as the
> linker looks at /usr/lib before /lib, which is usually the case, unless
> "-L/lib" is passed to ld (by way of gcc).

It seems to be the same issue as this bug:

 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284844

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Thanks,
Zac