<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I'm using fedora 6, the 64-bit edition. I'm trying to build a program that links with the library Xxf86vm located in the standard library path /usr/lib. I get an error message that indicates that the library doesn't exit. The error message says something like this, "ld returned 1 exit status".</DIV> <DIV>I checked the path /usr/lib and found that the library does exist. The real name of the library is libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0, and the versioned soname, which is a symbolic link to the real name, is libXxf86vm.so.1. Both names exist. However the version-less link name, libXxf86vm.so, doesn't exit.</DIV> <DIV>I tried to run ldconfig to update the links. It updates them but doesn't create the version-less link name. Of course I can create the link myself, but there are a lot of libraries in /usr/lib, that I may link with in the future, and they don't have a version-less link name(, only a real name and a versioned soname).</DIV> <DIV>Is there any way(with ldconfig or any other way) to automatically generate the version-less link name for all libraries in /usr/lib instead of doing this manually?</DIV> <DIV>Appreciating your fast response. Thanks for your help.</DIV></div><br> <hr size=1>Got a little couch potato? <br> Check out fun <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48248/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz">summer activities for kids.</a></body></html>