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Message 129725 - Python tracker

> "Having the soname be libpython3 is the whole point of the library":
> I think that the point of this library is "libpython3.so" filename,
> not soname. Everything should still work if libpython3.so had no
> soname at all.

IIUC, the linker will hard-code the full path name (include directory
name) into DT_NEEDED if the shared library has no soname. That would
be undesirable - the DT_NEEDED reference must be just the file name,
not the full path.