On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 19:04, William Miner <william.miner@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > So I look in /usr/lib and I see that I have > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Jun 17 2007 libiconv.2.2.0.dylib -> > libiconv.2.dylib > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 987544 Aug 18 11:17 libiconv.2.dylib > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20 Jun 17 2007 libiconv.dylib -> > libiconv.2.2.0.dylib > > Which looks suspicious to me (I just inherited this computer) because it > looks like it has version 2 but is trying to fool the system into thinking > that it has version 2.2.0. But in any case it certainly has a newer version > than 1.12. No, that is not what it means. The number on the compiled library is the SONAME (or equivalent), not the package version; the two are usually not related. The SONAME is meant to indicate compatibility. So if the interface to the libtrrary changes, the SONAME changes; but if only the implementation changes, the SONAME stays the same. And the details of the SONAME relate to how the interface changed. (There is a much better explanation in the libtool documentation.) Of course, it's also always possible that there's more than one libiconv project ... In any case, you can usually find out the version number by looking inside the header files the library installed.
