Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I've found the problem. Trond was right, it was the fact that the
> programs are linked against libpq.so.2.1, not libpq.so.2. And I was
> right, too :-), in that it was the -soname switch, which essentially seems
> to say "If you link with me, record that fact that I'm really <soname>."
There are two problems here, not just the one. This is the one
problem. The other is that _existing_ RPM packaged apps still need
support -- even though they were linked against the full soname.
> If you want to fix this in the RPMs, do something along the following
> lines (manually simulated patch) in Makefile.shlib:
That is useful information. Thanks.
> Apps linked against the old libraries will not be fixed until relinked.
Or until the RPM's supply 'stop-gap' symlinks to help existing packages.
I'll implement both, as they solve two sides of the same problem.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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