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From: Wayne Pollock <pollock@acm.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: make xconfig fails on Fedora 10 for 2.6.30
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:15:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A57BD9B.4030405@acm.org> (raw)

The "make xconfig" command tried to link to "libXi.so".
I think this is actually a kernel bug; the binary this
make command builds should try to link to some "soname"
such as "libXi.so.6" instead, shouldn't it?

The work-around was to manually create the missing symlink
for "libXi.so".  I suspect other distro's install that
symlink automatically so maybe that's why the bug was
not discovered.  But I believe it is correct to say all
applications should use a soname (including the major
version number), and not just the "linker" name (the
name ending in ".so" with no version numbers).

Or am I missing something?

-- 
Wayne Pollock

             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-10 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10 22:15 Wayne Pollock [this message]
2009-07-10 22:31 ` make xconfig fails on Fedora 10 for 2.6.30 David Rees
2009-07-11  5:12 ` Robert Hancock

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