Re: Multiple so-versions of a lib in unstable are bad
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no> writes:
> > | If libd1 is uploaded and only one of proga and libv0 is recompiled with
> > | libd1 this results in proga linked with both so-versions of the library.
> > | I remember problems with two so-versions of libpng, later with
> > | libssl0.9.6 and libssl0.9.7, and with libvorbis (at the time of the big
> > | libvorbis breakage [1]
> >
> > This is solved with versioned symbols.
>
> While still preserving compatibility with other GNU/Linux
> distributions?
There is no such thing. If you need multi-disto compatibility, you must use
whatever (old) set of libs are defined in LSB, or link statically.
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