Re: Parallel installation worries...

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

 Holly Canoli -- is that really possible ?? I think the the ld will laod the
first symbol it finds from the libs from the ld path.

 Perhaps I am 100% wrong -- I hope I am.

Harring.


--- Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com> wrote:
>      To put the question straight without any useless `because's' and
> what not:
>
> I'm writing `newlibrary' which I hope to link against glib-2.2.3.
>
> newlibrary will provide an api to `monolithic_gui' which already
> links against glib/gtk+-1.3.5 devel snapshot.
>
>   +--------------------+
>   | monolithic_gui     |
> +-----------+  +--------------+
> | gtk 1.3.5 |--| newlibrary   |
> | glib 1.3.5|  |  +---------------+
> +-----------+  +--| glib 2.2.3    |
>      |             +---------------+
>      +                     |
>       \____ conflics ?____/
>        or wierd behaviour ?
>
>
> Anyone know how safe this is ?
> (maybe some runtime linkers can screw me up here ?)
>
> Maybe (probably) it will "choke" whenever `monolithic_gui' uses
> `1.3.5' apis to operate on objects provided by `newlibrary' ?
> (like g_object_ref(G_OBJECT(newlibraryobject)) ? )
>
>
> (I think I read a doc that Havoc wrote about parallel installs,
> don't remember if it covered this...)
>
> Thankyou all in advance,
>                                              -Tristan
>
>
> PS:
>      upgrading monolithic_gui to gtk+-2.x is out of the question
> (maybe due for a rewrite over this summer, but you know, baby steps
> need to work for this or, it'll never get done).
>
> Oh, and as its 5:00 friday...
> so I might not be mailing 'till monday ;-)
>
>
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