[fpc-pascal] Defining sonames?

[Benito van der Zander]

Hi,

  that reminds me of Synapse.


It is always very confusing to people that they need to install 
libssl-dev to use https, and libssl does not work.
Because libssl-dev contains libssl.so or so, while libssl only has 
libssl.so.1.0.0, which is not found...

And then you tell people to install libssl-dev, and they are even more 
confused, because they cannot find it, because they are on a 
distribution where they call it devel-openssl instead.


Cheers,
Benito



On 08/12/2017 04:54 PM, Fred van Stappen wrote:
> Hello Martin.
>
> Description of libx11-dev package (in /DEBIAN/control).
>
> Package: libx11-dev
> ...
> Description:
> This package contains the development headers for the library found in 
> libx11-6.
> Non-developers likely have little use for this package.
> ...
>
> Afaik, fpc does not use the C headers (I did not find it) nor fpc does 
> not develop/change anything inside the libX11 code.
> Maybe, but I have lot of doubt, fpc could need the C headers to 
> compile himself.
> But the compiled fpc should not need it.
>
> So, imho, in the case of fpc, they should not use libX11.so but 
> libX11.so.6 when linking things with the binary fpc.
>
> My 0,001 cent.
>
>
> Fre;D
>
>
>
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