On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:49:51PM +0100, Léo Le Bouter via Guix-patches via wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 22:47 +1100, Ben Sturmfels via Guix-patches via
> wrote:
> > Thanks, that solves my problem. One follow-up question - is it better
> > to
> > use the ".so" link or the specific "so.0"?
> 
> Use the more specific one since that is a symlink for a fixed ABI, if
> the main library changes ABI it can then symlink with a bumped number
> to indicate that and not break any dependent package. If you use the
> less specific .so file directly then your package may suffer an ABI
> break.

The package gets rebuilt each time so it is less likely with Guix.
However, if you substitute libsndfile.so and the full text is
libsndfile.so.0.0.23 (or something similar) then you'll still end up
with /gnu/store/...libsndfile.../libsndfile.so.0.0.23.

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