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[bug-gsl] Re: Wrong shared library name in gsl-1.11? (2008-04-09)

From: Sebastien Maret <sebastien.maret@.........>
Subject: Re: Wrong shared library name in gsl-1.11?
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:17:35 +0200
To: bug-gsl@gnu.org

Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org> writes:

> At Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:16:41 +0200,
> Sebastien Maret wrote:
>> I would have expected the shared library installed by gsl-1.11 to be
>> named libgsl.0.11.0.dylib instead of libgsl.0.dylib. Is it intended?
>
> Thanks for your email. We rely on libtool to install the shared
> libraries. On GNU/Linux it does add the number, so I guess what you
> are seeing may be specific to MacOS -- you may want to check the
> libtool mailing list.

It seems that on MacOS libtool-2.2 does create libfoo.x.x.x.dylib
anymore, but just libfoo.dylib and libfoo.x.dylib only. See:
http://ircbrowse.com/channel/fink/20080409#hour17

Sébastien