About gtk library versions and dlopen()

[Panagiotis Astithas]

I see that in the marcuscom repository the gtk libraries have a version 
of 0 (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0), whereas the current stable port has a 
version of 600 (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.600). Could someone please explain the 
logic behind the gtk library versioning and whether the committed gnome 
2.12 will keep the 0 versions?

The main issue I'm trying to solve is whether we can dlopen a shared 
library on FreeBSD by specifying a version number of 0 and let the 
dynamic linker load the version that is currently installed. It seems 
that Eclipse on Linux and other Unix systems does this and they claim we 
have a weird linker.

Thanks for any feedback.

Panagiotis