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

On 08/31/2011 05:53 PM, John Clements wrote:
> TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, sorry:
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> I have an autoconf script that's failing to detect a certain library, and I've tracked it down to a failure of
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> ld -lasound foo.c
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> ..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?
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> Put differently: is there a way to specify a library version using an ld "-l" flag?

AFAIK to get the .so file you are supposed to install the development versions of the library.