On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:16:53PM +0000, Stephen Isard wrote:
> I've just logged in on a RH6.2 and a RH7.0 machine on our network,
> neither of which has poplog installed, and both have the link setup
> that Aaron reports. I ran 'rpm -q' on the 6.2 machine and found that
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so comes from the package XFree86-devel-3.3.6-20,
> while /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 comes from XFree86-libs-3.3.6-20. So
> whatever is going on, it looks unlikely that the links are there
> specifically in aid of poplog, or that they were inserted by hand by
> local computing officers. It is not even obvious to me on this evidence
> that the setup is the idea of RedHat, as opposed to the XFree86 Project.
Having been home and had a thorough look at my /usr/lib directory, I've
found:
191 files matching *.so.*, of which 102 were symlinks
44 files matching *.so, of which 26 are symlinks
This is on a Debian 2.2 system. Save to say, I'm confused. All I can
think is that maybe the .so files are an older naming system, being fazed
out? If that's true, then Debian and Mandrake have just taken the
opportunity earlier than Red Hat.
<snip - synopsis of dynamic linking>
In that case, I'll start reading up on relinking now and see if doing that
on my system helps any. If it does, it might be worth thinking about what
to do about the proper Poplog - if it's being compiled on a Red Hat
system, then there may be other programs requiring the .so links, so just
deleting those files might cause problems.
- Andrew
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