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Why do FNE archives use 'versioned' shared object files on Linux?

Why do FNE archives use 'versioned' shared object files on Linux?

Summary

Why do FNE archives use 'versioned' shared object files on Linux?

Question

We're running our setup on a x64 bit SuSE 11.3 system using the flexnet_client-xt-c-x64_linux-2017.08.0.tgz toolkit. When we link the libFlxClientXT_pic.a and libFlxCommonXT_pic.a archives with our build, the resulting executable requires that we include the versioned files libFlxComm64.so.2017.08 and libFlxCore64.so.2017.08. Is there a reason these 'versioned' shared object files are required rather than just using libFlxCo*64.so files?

Answer

FlexNet Embedded aligned with standard Linux procedures as of the 2016 R2 release.

Here's some more info on how they are used:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/475/how-do-so-shared-object-numbers-work
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