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Is there a reason that the libraries have been renamed from 7.0 to 7?

LLVM adopted a new version scheme which made the minor version redundant. IIRC someone suggested to remove it and nobody objected.

Does this page explain the parent's question? It specifically mentions keeping the minor version more than once.

Building MESA I had to change my script from "6.0" to "7" indeed.