I'm working on fixing tracker #2971516. What I have learned is that libtool on OpenBSD does not create .so files without the version suffix because they use a different value of library_names_spec in libtool than Linux does. However, their dlopen() has some ld magic; for example, dlopen("libbat.so") and dlopen("/usr/local/lib/libbat.so.1.34") both work just fine. However the monetdb server tries to open() the .so first, and the open() method does not have the same ld magic as dlopen(). So my question is---why call open() at all? What value does it add to the dlopen() call? Seems like picking the right library version is a responsibility that should belong to ld. I'm contemplating a patch that skips the open() call for .so files. Thanks, m