[fpc-pascal] linux: should we hard-code versioned or unversioned shared libraries in our apps?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Aug 15 15:41:31 CEST 2012


In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> In both these cases, I manually created unversioned symlinks to those
> libraries, and that got my applications working again. This is not
> ideal, but I don't know how else to handle this.

> Does any body know what is the "most correct" way of handling this?

(1) avoid _dyn versions. 
(2) override the built-in naming by calling
ibase60dyn.initializeibase60('whatever.so');
 
before connection or other db parts initializes.



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