On numbers as part of library names

[Colin Guthrie]

Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 18:14 +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
>> And yes, the library names
>>   must be different because otherwise you end up with
>>
>>         libpixman.so.<gobbledigook>
>>
>>   and 
>>
>>         libpixman.so.<different gobbledigook>
>>
>>   and nobody will know what is actually installed, or which of the
>>   libpixman.so's are compatible, or what "-lpixman" means.
> 
> The rule is that, for libpixman.so.X.A and libpixman.so.Y.B
> if (X == Y) they are ABI compatible.
> 
> 	Xav

I agree on this one.

What "-lpixman" means will depend on what version of the development
package I have installed (of which I can only install one version at a
time).

This is fairly standard I thought?

Col