[haiku-development] Re: 32bit-wchar_t branch has been merged into trunk - full rebuild necessary

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 18:50, Oliver Tappe<zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Naturally, this will not solve the problem of the optional packages that 
> depend
> on libiconv.so.2. I have no idea where the .2 is coming from, actually, as the
> current version of libiconv is 1.13 !?! Well, I guess we have to keep the
> symlink until all such optional packages have been fixed.

The *.so.2 is due to the weird naming schemes used by some projects.
I might be able to dig up an email thread about this, but it basically
boils down to those project maintainers somehow using a non-obvious
numbering scheme.  Possibly for compatibility purposes or something.

http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/nomenclature-building-shared-libs

this thread may also be of use:
http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/question-on-commonshareaclocallibtoolm4

--mmadia

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