[Mono-devel-list] shared library lookups

[Ivan Hawkes]

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Alex Graveley wrote:

| Hi,
|
| So for many people without -devel versions of packages installed, mono
| doesn't find libraries like libgnome and libgnomevfs at pinvoke time.
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| Perhaps mono should look for libtool versioned libraries (e.g.
| libfoo.so.1.2.3) if a .so can't be found?  In such a case I suppose mono
| would just look for the highest version available?
|

Surely linking to an unknown library with the highest version number is
fraught with peril? What if they change interfaces or deprecate some
routines we are using?
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