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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

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