Re: librpm linking issues

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:19 PM, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:

> I've noticed that as we've brought this Mono assembly that ties  
> into librpm over to older versions of RHEL and SUSE, it'll break  
> because for some (obscenely frustrating) reason when the shared  
> library of mine is built it links against my librpm-4.4.so and  
> stores that in the shared library's linker table, instead of the  
> symbolic link of librpm.so
>
> So, when we moved it to RHEL3, with librpm-4.1.so, it broke, same  
> for RHEL4, etc. While on deployment I can setup a symbolic link  
> from librpm4.4.so -> librpm.so, that;s a bit hackish.
>
> How might I force my Makefile to link my shared library against / 
> usr/lib/librpm.so instead of the versioned one?
>
> This isn't _exactly_ on-topic for the list, but I figured one of  
> you folks might know :)

Try <rpm-devel lists dulug duke edu>. In fact I will CC ...

Dunno enough about mono to answer immediately. Hmmm, it sounds
like the version in the library soname is going to prevent a single  
linkage,
which is by intent, since rpmlib has neever guaranteed a stable ABI  
between
minor releases.

73 de Jeff