ldconfig warnings

[Harry Putnam <reader newsguy com>]

Anyone know what these warnings from ldconfig mean:

# ldconfig -D

ldconfig: warning: /lib/libdb-2.1.2.so has inconsistent soname (libdb.so.3)
ldconfig: warning: /lib/libdb1-2.1.2.so has inconsistent soname (libdb.so.2)
ldconfig: warning: /lib/libdl-2.1.2.so has inconsistent soname (libdl.so.2)
ldconfig: warning: /lib/libm-2.1.2.so has inconsistent soname (libm.so.6)
ldconfig: warning: /lib/libnsl-2.1.2.so has inconsistent soname (libnsl.so.1)

or these:

ldconfig

# ldconfig

ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.50 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.50 is not a symlink