On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:51:49PM -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote:
They say that shared objects which are intended to be dlopen'd, as opposed to linked to, should not include version numbers, and it should look like: -rwxr-xr-x 1 henson henson 1773576 May 21 12:54 back_bdb-2.4.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 henson henson 864 May 21 12:54 back_bdb.la
Personally I'd even go further: -rwxr-xr-x 1 henson henson 1773576 May 21 12:54 back_bdb.so (and no .la at all - on platforms where that's feasible)