Re: libbfd

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 17:12, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  Is there no way to have a package dynamically depend on
> libbfd without rebuilding for every binutils release?  Why does the
> soname depend on the *full version* number of the binutils?  I.e.,
> isn't there a concept of a common API maintained across minor
> releases?  

Maintaining a stable API, let alone a stable ABI, has never really been
a goal for libbfd.  You should just link statically against it.

p.