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Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6



On 2018-07-31 10:01:00 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > As for the "6", I'm guessing that they chose that because the library
> > version (yes, another versioning sequence) is 6.0.1 as opposed to 4.1.5.
> 
> That's right, this is an "API version", so I guess it means that the
> 4.0.1 upstream code can be used to build both the API version 4 and
> the API version 6.

This is related to the ABI versions, not API.

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