Re: libgailutil.so.16 -> libgailutil.so.17

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

Frédéric,

I had not realized that I was doing this. 

I am currently wrestling with gail's configure.in file. Hopefully the next 
release of gail will be the last with this problem.

Padraig

> 
> Le lun 29/07/2002 à 11:01, Padraig O'Briain a écrit :
> > Jon,
> > 
> > I have sen a long thread on this which I have not studied closely yet.
> > 
> > I would like to clarify exactly what the complaint is.
> > 
> > I am not concious of making any changes to libgailutil between versions 16 
and 
> > 17.
> > 
> > If using libgailutil, I would expect you to link with libgailutil.so, i.e. 
> > -llibgailutil.
> 
> By bumping libgailutil major for each gail release, you break binary
> compatibility for already compiled applications, which cause headache
> for distributors like Mandrake or RH (we have to recompile all
> applications against this version of the lib and if we are in post
> release state, we have to be sure to keep old version of the lib
> around..)
> 
> This is what we could call the "GAL" syndrome :))
> 
> -- 
> Frédéric Crozat
> MandrakeSoft
> 
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