[FFmpeg-user] cannot build shared libraries on Solaris

[Carl Zwanzig]

On 12/27/2018 1:00 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 2018-12-24 14:20 GMT+01:00, Eric Thomas<eric21797 at gmail.com>:

>> On my Solaris machine, the library filenames do not have the version
>> suffix. For example, "*libavcodec.so.*"

> I get version suffixes here:
> $ ls -l libavcodec/libavcodec.*
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 cehoyos  staff         16 Dec 27 21:58
> libavcodec/libavcodec.so -> libavcodec.so.58
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 cehoyos  staff    66379668 Dec 27 21:58
> libavcodec/libavcodec.so.58

I seem to recall that solaris doesn't usually set up the "symlink to the 
numbered lib" technique that BSD and linux use but I don't have a system to 
check that.

Does solaris/illumos/etc use that technique?

z!