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Author loewis
Recipients Arfrever, barry, dmalcolm, georg.brandl, loewis
Date 2011-02-28.22:04:52
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In-reply-to <1298930270.98.0.593292336807.issue11347@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
Content 
> "Having the soname be libpython3 is the whole point of the library":
> I think that the point of this library is "libpython3.so" filename,
> not soname. Everything should still work if libpython3.so had no
> soname at all.

IIUC, the linker will hard-code the full path name (include directory
name) into DT_NEEDED if the shared library has no soname. That would
be undesirable - the DT_NEEDED reference must be just the file name,
not the full path.
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Date User Action Args
2011-02-28 22:04:53loewissetrecipients: + loewis, barry, georg.brandl, Arfrever, dmalcolm
2011-02-28 22:04:52loewislinkissue11347 messages
2011-02-28 22:04:52loewiscreate