missing shared library aliases

[Brian Harvey]

I'm trying to build a static wxWidgets library on the XO (for use with
the ucblogo project), and it works, except that certain shared libraries
are (at least on my XO) missing aliases that exist on my office Linux PC.
For example, I have a file named
	/usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1
but the linker is looking for
	/usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so
which on my office machine is linked to the former.  Other examples are
libjpeg and libtiff.

I solved the problem for my own XO by adding the missing links, but that
won't work for a project distributed to the kiddies.  Can someone tell me
the right way to solve this problem?  Thanks.