Apparently this is normal ( having a version number as part of the filename ) and is there to avoid linking to the wrong version of a shared object. I also had to create symlinks when I first set up my Mandrake system. On Win32, the version info is usually embeded in the DLL so that can be checked.

Ideally, when JEDI-SDL v1.0 is released, as part of setting things up for FPC and Kylix, it would be great if the install script created the symlinks as well, but that would mean the user installing JEDI-SDL as root, which theoretically may not always be possible.

If anyone on these forums is a guru with Linux shell scripts, please get in contact with me. I need someone to let me know how to use grep effeciently so that I can pick up the appropriate Shared Object library and create a symlink @ installation time.