Hallo Adolf, > On 19 Apr 2022, at 11:18, Adolf Belka wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have done an update build of samba-4.16.0 which built fine after the installation of a new dependency perl-JSON. > > My question is regarding the rootfile changes shown in the samba file in the log directory. Many of the libraries now have no version number and are replaced by just a .so file > > As an example libasn1-samba4 has the following removed > -usr/lib/samba/libasn1-samba4.so.8 > -usr/lib/samba/libasn1-samba4.so.8.0.0 > > and replaced by > +usr/lib/samba/libasn1-samba4.so This is probably not a bad idea from their point of view. Those libraries don’t need to be versioned, because at a time, you can only have one version of samba installed. So we need to ship them all. > There is no mention of any changes to the lib files in the Whats New file in the source tarball or on the samba website that I have been able to find. > > I want to be sure that this is not occurring because of some error I have made somewhere. > > Attached below is the whole of the samba logfile showing the new files and the files being removed. > > Regards, > > Adolf. > > > -- > Sent from my laptop >