Linking a shared library against _APP_ does not work as in BeOS R5

[Anarchos]

Even if a library should not be linked against _APP_, it is the case for libpq.so, the postgresql library included in the BeOS PHP port. On BeOS it works fine, on Haiku it raises the error : "runtime_loader: Cannot open file _APP_: No such file or directory"

[bonefish]

All you have to do is set your application's soname to "_APP_" and everything will work as expected. It may be that BeOS had some special handling for the case that this had not been done for the application, but I don't see compelling reasons to do that.