Re: Bug#318590: curl situation is intolerable
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:54:17AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > > It is *absolutely intolerable* to declare such conflicts for shared
> > > libraries, where there are easy solutions: MAKE TWO LIBRARIES THAT
> > > HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES.
> >
> > The package has to build libraries with differently versioned symbols as
> > well, to avoid total app meltdown if both libraries are loaded into the same
> > address space.
>
> hmm.. i didn't realized this. how does it work?
Version the symbols of one of the libs like this:
CURLGTLS_ABI
and the other lib like this:
CURLOSSL_ABI
where ABI is the ABI version, such as 20, 30...
Of course, you also need the files to be named differently so that the libs
can coexist.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
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Henrique Holschuh
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