Re: Eximon on SunOS/OpenWindows

On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> I'd check that your libXmu shared bits are intact - each of the .so/.sa
> files should be a symlink to a .s?.ver.num file where ver num are digits
> corresponding to the major and minor version numbers. The version numbers
> of both bits should be the same.

I don't know solaris, but on linux that isn't quite true.

The libfoo.so file should be either a symlink or a linker control file,
which points to a symlink called libfoo.so.x; this should be the soname of
the library. This symlink in turn points to the library itself, called
libfoo.so.x.y. If you omit the middle symlink, things will appear to work
but your binaries will depend on the minor version of the library which is
not a good thing generally.