FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:43:07PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > > [root@UNIXWORK lib]# pwd
> > > /usr/local/freetds/lib
> > > [root@UNIXWORK lib]# ls -la
> > [...]
> > > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Sep 16 18:01 libsybdb.so -> 
> > > libsybdb.so.1.0.0
> > > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Sep 16 18:01 libsybdb.so.1 ->
> > > 
> > > libsybdb.so.1.0.0
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       473961 Sep 16 17:35 libsybdb.so.1.0
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       336495 Sep 16 18:01
> > > libsybdb.so.1.0.0
> > [...]
> > > [root@UNIXWORK lib]# nm libsybdb.so | grep -i dbdead
> > > 00007a90 T DBDEAD
> > > [root@UNIXWORK lib]# nm libsybdb.so.1.0 | grep -i dbdead
> > > 00008e70 T dbdead
> 
> > > As you see the dbdead() is exported in the libsybdb.so but not in the 
> > > libsybdb.so.1.0
> 
> > Facinating.  Thank you for taking the trouble.  Perhaps someone who knows
> > more about how libtool (?) installs libraries.  It's very odd, right? 
> > Your symlinks point to libsybdb.so.1.0.0, which is smaller than
> > libsybdb.so.1.0 but has the same dates as the links and has the old
> > DBDEAD.  

Hmm, I think I've found at least a partial explanation for the weird
symlinking.  The 0.60 and 0.60.1 tarballs were created using a different
version of libtool than the one for 0.53, and the two versions put a
different number of zeroes in the library filename... :)

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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