From: Yves A. <yv...@re...> - 2001-12-20 00:49:31
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> In packaging up the parts of ICU that are needed to ship with > our WebSphere product I notice that NT and AIX libs are nice > and clean. But HPUX, SUN, and Linux have the version numbers > in some of the libs, and symbolic links between them. For example > on SUN I have determined I need (for link, load and run): > > libicudt20b.so > libicuuc.so symbolic link to libicuuc.so.20 > libicuuc.so.20 symbolic link to libicuuc.so.20.0 > libicuuc.so.20.0 The versioning is a Good Thing(tm). It is the guarantee that a user can install a different version of ICU than the one you used, and not break your installation. Post-2.0, I'll work on making the data library follow the same convention. YA |