linux-kernel - make xconfig fails on Fedora 10 for 2.6.30

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Message-ID: <4A57BD9B.4030405@acm.org>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:15:55 -0400
From:	Wayne Pollock <pollock@....org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: make xconfig fails on Fedora 10 for 2.6.30

The "make xconfig" command tried to link to "libXi.so".
I think this is actually a kernel bug; the binary this
make command builds should try to link to some "soname"
such as "libXi.so.6" instead, shouldn't it?

The work-around was to manually create the missing symlink
for "libXi.so".  I suspect other distro's install that
symlink automatically so maybe that's why the bug was
not discovered.  But I believe it is correct to say all
applications should use a soname (including the major
version number), and not just the "linker" name (the
name ending in ".so" with no version numbers).

Or am I missing something?

-- 
Wayne Pollock
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