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.