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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 17:29:40 -0600
From: "Ben Weiss" <b.weiss@fastmail.fm>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: ld cannot find library with .so.1 extension
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Hi all,

I am working on my first Alpine package, the Softether VPN.
Trying to build the package, ld complained "Cannot find -lz". Checking the ld man page, I see -lfile will search for (summarizing here) libfile.a and libfile.so . I checked all of the other -l parameters, they all end in .a or .so- only libz ends in .so.1 (which is a symlink to libz.so.1.2.11). I tried simply creating a libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.11 symlink, and my package happily compiled.

So, my question is-
Should libz have a libz.so -> libz.so.(version) symlink in addtion to the .so.1 symlink, or is there a parameter or something else I am unaware of that will make ld find the library with the .so* extension?

Thanks!
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  Ben Weiss
  b.weiss@fastmail.fm