On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Scoped Ptr wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. Say if I use libcurl.so.4 (latest) on my build system
> and I try to run the application on a machine which still has only
> libcurl.so.3. In that case it will be necessary to update libcurl to so.4 on
> the user system to successfully run the application ?

Yes.

Or you can gamble and make a symlink from the .so.4...

(You know, some people even claim we did the soname bump "accidentally":

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.extras.cvs/189383 )

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