[libvirt] libvirt library binary name for linux

Justin Clift jclift at redhat.com
Tue Oct 19 13:11:16 UTC 2010


On 10/20/2010 12:03 AM, Alejandro Mery wrote:
<snip>
>> It's a very standard library.  Sometimes it is "libc.so.6", on older
>> Linux's, it can be "libc.so.5".
>>
>> You are generally safe to use it. :)
>
> why does he need to know it? It only helps to ruin portability.

Heh.  At a guess, Arnaud is looking like he's in very early stages
of learning Linux development.  So, he's probably not exactly sure what
he does or doesn't need to know, and is doing his best with the
knowledge he has. :)




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