library links

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 12:47:02 -0800, Brent Hills wrote:

> Researching my own issue:
> 
> From the shared library how to at
> http://www.linux.se/doc/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html
> 
> "Therefore, ldconfig makes no assumptions about what you want programs
> to link to, so installers must specifically modify symbolic links to
> update what the linker will use for a library."
> 
> Maybe a trivial issue for the package maintainer?  Or I had a problem
> during installation of the rpm on my system.  Does the link from
> /usr/lib/libasound.so to the versioned library exist on other peoples
> systems who have alsa-lib-1.0.3a-1 installed?

Install alsa-lib-devel to get the link. The link is not needed at
run-time. It's only needed for linking against libasound.