Re: Guile 1.3 == SO 4
David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 08:18:54PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> > davidw@prosa.it (David N. Welton) writes:
> >
> > > Ok, so I was able to confirm this with Jim (Blandy? argh, I'm
> > > tired.... they guy who does guile upstream, not Pick) - 4 is
> > > indeed the correct SO version for Guile 1.3. So this means that
> > > a few packages will have to be recompiled.
> >
> > I guess from the hugely uninformative changelog you added
> > compatibility symlinks to the old soname in -4? If so, please
> > don't remove them. Breaking packages gratuitously, common
> > practice as it seems to be these days, really does suck.
>
> If it is not compatible, why put symlinks?
They're not. I got scwm working again by putting a compat symlink
.so.3 -> .so.4.
--
James
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