Bug 11566

Summary: ldconfig doesn't do the right thing
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Jonathan Kamens <jik>
Component: glibcAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2000-05-22 01:41:51 UTC 
ldconfig in glibc-2.1.90-11 is supposed to create symbolic links pointing
at the most recent version of a library, isn't it?  It doesn't appear to be
doing that:

# ls -l /usr/lib/libtclx* /usr/lib/libtkx*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       199290 Mar 18 18:19
/usr/lib/libtclx8.2.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       160056 Mar 18 18:19
/usr/lib/libtclx8.2.so
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5370 Mar 18 18:19
/usr/lib/libtkx8.2.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        10657 Mar 18 18:19
/usr/lib/libtkx8.2.so
# ldconfig
# ls -l /usr/lib/libtclx* /usr/lib/libtkx*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       199290 Mar 18 18:19
/usr/lib/libtclx8.2.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       160056 Mar 18 18:19
/usr/lib/libtclx8.2.so
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5370 Mar 18 18:19
/usr/lib/libtkx8.2.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        10657 Mar 18 18:19
/usr/lib/libtkx8.2.so

Why didn't it create /usr/lib/libtkx.8.so and /usr/lib/libtclx.8.so?
Comment 1 Hardy Mayer 2000-06-06 17:07:55 UTC 
see also bug 11928 for cause and remedies.
Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2000-12-19 16:26:18 UTC 
What symbolic link would you expect?
ldconfig creates a symlink with name coming from DSO's SONAME to DSO's real
filename. libtclx* nor libtkx* don't have any SONAME in its DYNAMIC sections.