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

How about creating a symlink local to your project that links to .3, then you can just use -L at compile time. I'm not sure if you'd get a name conflict though, but you could always call it libcurl-old.so just in case.