Re: [Chicken-users] no soname

[felix winkelmann]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Ivan Raikov <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Felix,
>
>   This means that we cannot have a Debian package for Chicken 4,
> because Debian insists on having a soname version, so that it can do
> things like installing libchicken 3 and 4 alongside each other. How
> does soname break explicit dynamic loading of core libraries?

The dynamic load doesn't find the .so due to the added .4 extension.

I wonder what's the point of enforcing use of soname, if (for example)
header-files are usually not versioned. What if you want to install
a chicken.h 3 and 4 alongside each other?


cheers,
felix