Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:41:55 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linked twice against libintl.so Message-ID: <20030113174154.GC3131@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030113102353.GA3538@gicco.homeip.net> References: <20030112221129.GA11959@gicco.homeip.net> <20030112234650.GC95625@dan.emsphone.com> <20030113102353.GA3538@gicco.homeip.net>
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In the last episode (Jan 13), Hanspeter Roth said: > On Jan 12 at 17:46, Dan Nelson spoke: > > You definitely don't want to do this. Shared libraries get version > > bumps when the APIs change, so all you would do is coredump. > > Is gettext's application programming interface changing so often? > (Without staying compatible.) Apparently so. If the API doesn't change there's no reason to bump the version number. Actually I should say ABI (API is the C-level interface, ABI is the object-level interface). If some internal gettext structure changes, the ABI may change without the API changing. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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