From: Philipp Thomas (pth_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-10 09:38:32
* Neal Becker (ndbecker2_at_[hidden]) [20060809 23:29]:
> If you run ldconfig, won't it change your symlink to point to the highest
> version number, which might not be what you want?
No it won't. ldconfig only creats symlinks to the soname of a shared
library. So you get that symlink only if any of the boost libraries has a
soname of libboost.so.2.
I haven't tried what happens if more then one library has the same soname,
but I'd guess the last library checked wins.
Philipp