Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Question about linking

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Eugen Dedu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since about 10 days I have a problem on snapshots: ekiga-snapshot uses 
> libopal.so instead of libopal.so.3.7-beta0.  Do you know what could be 
> the error?  Nothing changed in packaging I think...
>
> snoopy:~$ objdump -p /usr/bin/ekiga-snapshot|grep NEEDED
>   NEEDED               libXv.so.1
>   NEEDED               libavahi-common.so.3
>   NEEDED               libavahi-client.so.3
>   NEEDED               libavahi-glib.so.1
>   NEEDED               libebook-1.2.so.9
>   NEEDED               libedataserver-1.2.so.11
>   NEEDED               libgconf-2.so.4
>   NEEDED               libgthread-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED               libopal.so       <--- here is the error
>   NEEDED               libpt.so.2.7-beta0
>   NEEDED               libpthread.so.0
>   NEEDED               libsasl2.so.2
>   NEEDED               libldap_r-2.4.so.2
>   NEEDED               liblber-2.4.so.2
>   NEEDED               libsigc-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED               libxml2.so.2
>   NEEDED               libnotify.so.1
>   NEEDED               libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED               libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED               libatk-1.0.so.0
>   NEEDED               libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED               libpango-1.0.so.0
>   NEEDED               libgmodule-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED               libgobject-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED               libglib-2.0.so.0
>   NEEDED               libstdc++.so.6
>   NEEDED               libm.so.6
>   NEEDED               libgcc_s.so.1
>   NEEDED               libc.so.6
>   NEEDED               libX11.so.6
>   NEEDED               libXext.so.6
>
> I have, as always:
> snoopy:~$ l /usr/lib/libpt.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root      18 May 27 21:48 /usr/lib/libpt.so -> 
> libpt.so.2.7-beta0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 4232336 May 27 21:46 /usr/lib/libpt.so.2.7-beta0
> snoopy:~$ l /usr/lib/libopal.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root       20 May 27 21:59 /usr/lib/libopal.so -> 
> libopal.so.3.7-beta0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 11761384 May 27 21:56 /usr/lib/libopal.so.3.7-beta0

Solved: there was a bug in opal, which created the library without 
soname, so the linker used libopal.so (without the soname suffix) as 
library needed...

Eugen