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

TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, sorry:

I have an autoconf script that's failing to detect a certain library, and I've tracked it down to a failure of

ld -lasound foo.c

..which tells me that it can't find -lasound.  Digging around in /usr/lib, I see that there's a libasound.so.2, but not a libasound.so.  I just created a symbolic link from libasound.so to libasound.so.2, and that seems to work, but that *can't* be the general solution. Can it?

Put differently: is there a way to specify a library version using an ld "-l" flag?

John

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