Re: clsql-sys:database-type-load-foreign

From: Sławek Żak <szak-m/[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [CLSQL-Devel] clsql-sys:database-type-load-foreign
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 12:32:05 +0200

>     Aren't libpq.so.2 and libpq.so.3 linked to libpq.so? When they decide to bump libpq

No they are not linked. As I showed in my previous message "Red Hat
Linux release 9 (Shrike)" and "SuSE SLES-8 (AMD64) VERSION = 8.1" does
not have libpq.so. The older releases do have libpq.so linked to the
latest version.

>     version to 4, new link will be created so why use the real name and modify
>     the source every time?

Since at least two major Linux distributions does no do this and we'll
to cope with it. I thought it would be easier to include the proposed
change to clsql rather than getting Red Hat and SuSE to change their
distributions and published ISO files. I could also be appropriate to
add "so.4" (1) for the upcoming release, or even better search the
given directories and match filenames, .so first and .so.[0-9]* next.

Another possibility is of course to add a note to the clsql
documentation that some major Linux releases have the given deficiency
and that you should add the link yourself (if you have root access).

Petter
1) or even (loop for d from 1 to 42 collect (format nil "so.~D" d))