Soft linking libraries

[Chaman Singh Verma]

Hello,

Many times, I face the problem of not finding the libraries and after little
bit investigation, I observe
that the problem could be solved by explicitly making soft link. For
example:

csv610 at blackhole:/usr/lib$ ls -al libglut.so.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2008-11-03 21:43 libglut.so.3 -> libglut.so.3.8.0

Many application when linked with -lglut report that library not found. Why
the standard installation
doesn't create  a software link libglut.so->libglut.so.3 ? Any logical
reasons ?

Thanks.
csv
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