Re: aspell upgrade woes
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:13:00AM +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> Brian Nelson wrote:
> > OK, very well then, I'll undo the GCC 4 transition for libaspell15.
> Isn't there still a binary-compatibility issue here? I thought that
> in an application, there must only be one version of libstdc++,
> directly or indirectly. Otherwise, during runtime, symbols may resolve
> from the "wrong" libstdc++, causing crashes.
> So if libaspell is linked with libstdc++.so.6, and some application
> links to both libaspell (through the C API), and libstdc++.so.5 (because
> it is a C++ application), this application may crash, as it might pick
> up symbol definitions from libstdc++.so.6 - or libaspell might crash
> as it picks up some symbols from libstdc++.so.5, and some from
> libstdc++.so.6.
All of the symbols provided by both libstdc++.so.6 and libstdc++.so.5 are
versioned; I don't think there's any real risk here of crashes due to
picking the wrong symbols at runtime.
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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