[gnutls-dev] gnutls's sonames

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

Thanks for the explanation. So you'd ship many versions of your lib,
linked against different gnutls versions, and then use the one that
actually works on the system in question -- correct?

Tim Ringenbach:
> Yeah, I figured I would install several additional versions of gnutls in 
> private prefixes, and use those to link against. Unless gnutls is 
> parallel installable, but I don't think it is.

The library itself is, but the development headers plus linkable .so lib
isn't.

> I know whenever e.g. gtk, changes its soname,

They didn't just change the soname -- they changed the whole library name.
The gtk people had a point, though -- gtk1.2 and gtk2 are essentially
different libraries, not just the same library with a few minor changes
or extensions.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs   |   {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de   |  smurf at smurf.noris.de
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