[racket-dev] OT: ld static linking + linux version numbers -> ??

On Aug 31, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> Three hours ago, John Clements wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>> 
>>> AFAIK to get the .so file you are supposed to install the
>>> development versions of the library.
>> 
>> Ah! Okay, this makes sense. Uh, sort of.
> 
> The rationale is that applications need to specify a version number,
> so the version-less file is only for developers.  But it's surprising
> that you didn't have that file -- not having the dev package means
> that you also wouldn't have the header file.

Yep, right you are.

Thanks again, all.

John

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