How do you link to a specific version of a shared library in GCC

Question

I\'m compiling some code which uses libcurl on a Debian Linux system. My dev machine is running Debian 5 but I want the binary to be usable on older Debian 4 systems too.

Answer 1

You can pass the actual .so file instead of -l on the linker command line, and it ought to do what you want.