[gnutls-dev] gnutls's sonames

[Tim Ringenbach]

Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Your system should have a /usr/lib/lbgnutls.so file (which corresponds
> to the headers installed in /usr/include). You link against that.

Yes, it does. I know this.

> Why would you care about the library's soname? The linker does the
> Right Thing for you.

Because I'm building an autopackage, as I said earlier. People trying to 
install it will have different versions of gnutls. Right now, it insists 
  the user either have mozilla nss, or gnutls11. If they have neither 
(or if mozilla nss is installed some place we can't find, like it 
commonly is), the autopackage refuses to install, because things 
wouldn't work.

> You cannot build against other libgnutls versions anyway, because you
> don't have the corresponding C header files installed.


Yeah, I figured I would install several additional versions of gnutls in 
private prefixes, and use those to link against. Unless gnutls is 
parallel installable, but I don't think it is. I know whenever e.g. gtk, 
changes its soname, they make the library parallel installable, so you 
can have gtk1.2 and gtk2.0 installed to the same prefix and build 
applications against both.