Xfce4 rc2 is out

[Koblinger Egmont]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Scott Jones wrote:

> BTW, Ilkka, your rpm of dbh seems to be broken.  The symlinks that
> should be libdbh-1.0.so.1 and libdbh.so are made as libdbh-1.0.1 and
> libdbh.  Building from the srpm has the same problem, but creating an
> rpm from the tarball using checkinstall works just fine.

I've once met this situation (.so missing from the filename). It was
caused by a libtool replacement from 1.5 to 1.4. Some distros (e.g.
Mandrake and UHU) replace libtool before compiling an application, since
libtool is one of the worst software available for unices with many bugs
which especially arise with destdir installations. Hence some distros
choose to replace the libtool shipped by the application with their own
version of libtool. You might not see this step in an rpm spec file, e.g.
at mandrake this step is included by default in %configure. When our
libtool was still at 1.4.3 but we tried to compile apps that had libtool
1.5 inside their tarball, the phenomenon was exactly the one described by
Scott: everything was okay except for the ".so" missing from the filename.


bye,
Egmont