--- eutils.eclass	Fri Aug  5 17:18:30 2005
+++ eutils.eclass.new	Fri Aug  5 17:18:08 2005
@@ -1617,3 +1617,20 @@
 		newbin "${tmpwrapper}" "${wrapper}"
 	fi
 }
+
+get_libname() {
+	local ver=$1
+	if use userland_Darwin ; then
+		if [ -z ${ver} ] ; then
+			echo ".dylib"			
+		else
+			echo ".${ver}.dylib"
+		fi
+	else 
+		if [ -z ${ver} ] ; then
+			echo ".so"	
+		else
+			echo ".so.${ver}"
+		fi
+	fi
+}