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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration</H1>
+ <B>Frank Griffin</B>
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+ <I>Fri Nov 30 13:26:18 CET 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On 11/30/2012 07:13 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
+&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Before doing all that, can you explain the significance of the
+</I>&gt;<i> suffixes here?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> ls /usr/lib/ | grep powerdevil
+</I>&gt;<i> libpowerdevilconfigcommonprivate.so.4@
+</I>&gt;<i> libpowerdevilconfigcommonprivate.so.4.10.0*
+</I>&gt;<i> libpowerdevilcore.so.0@
+</I>&gt;<i> libpowerdevilcore.so.0.1.0*
+</I>&gt;<i> libpowerdevilui.so.4@
+</I>&gt;<i> libpowerdevilui.so.4.10.0*
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>Library naming conventions use several, actual version, e. g. 4.10.0,
+major version, e. g. 4, and a generic name, e. g. libxxx.so. The last
+two are usually symlinked to the first.
+
+The major version usually signals an ABI difference or some other major
+difference, e. g. new function, from the previous version. The actual
+version changes whenever any change is made. Developers use the major
+version if their code is dependent on that major version, but just use
+the generic name if any version will do.
+
+In this way, the majority of packages using the library just ask for
+libxxx.so, and don't have to be rebuilt or have their makefiles or spec
+modified when the library changes. A few packages, which are dependent
+on a specific version, ask for libxxx.so.N (or higher), and these have
+to be changed when the major version they require is released. A very
+very few packages are dependent on the actual version, and these may
+have to change more often.
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