py: load the SONAME-versioned shared object

Instruct the python module to load the SONAME versioned shared object.

Normal end-user systems may only have available libnftables.so.1.0.0 and not
libnftables.so which is usually only present in developer systems.

In Debian systems, for example:

 % dpkg -L libnftables1 | grep so.1
 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnftables.so.1.0.0
 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnftables.so.1

 % dpkg -L libnftables-dev | grep so
 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnftables.so

The "1" is not a magic number, is the SONAME of libnftables in the current
version, as stated in Make_global.am.

Reported-by: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

diff --git a/py/nftables.py b/py/nftables.py
index 48eb54fe232d4486dbe0af75affe9ca06394ed22..2a0a1e89a43fe9a67cc528d6974bac44d231ba5a 100644 (file)
--- a/py/nftables.py
+++ b/py/nftables.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ class Nftables:
 
     validator = None
 
-    def __init__(self, sofile="libnftables.so"):
+    def __init__(self, sofile="libnftables.so.1"):
         """Instantiate a new Nftables class object.
 
         Accepts a shared object file to open, by default standard search path