site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) I'm compiling my dylib as follows: gcc -dynamiclib -current_version 0.8.25 \ src/f1.pic.o src/f2.pic.o s -o libfoo.0.8.25.dylib and installing it in /usr/local/lib like: -rwxr-xr-x libfoo.0.8.25.dylib lrwxr-xr-x libfoo.0.8.dylib -> libfoo.0.8.25.dylib lrwxr-xr-x libfoo.dylib -> libfoo.0.8.25.dylib -rw-r--r-- libfoo.a But when I increment the version, programs compiled with an older version will not load: $ ./test dyld: ./test can't open library: libfoo.0.8.24.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) Trace/BPT trap -- Martin _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Michael B Allen wrote: The idea of the symlink libfoo.0.8.dylib -> libfoo.0.8.25.dylib is that the install_name of the library is libfoo.0.8.dylib. If you install a new version, it will still have the same install_name and the symlink will still be present, it will just point to the new version. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com