On Monday 10 May 2010 13:27:48 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 05/10/2010 08:11 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > > * what is the recommended way to link to libpng (versioned lib or not) > > * corollary to previous question, should we enforce link to versioned > > lib only ? > > You get correct lib to link from `pkg-config --libs libpng` or if you > need to avoid pkg-config, then e.g. AC_CHECK_LIB for unversioned png.
i dont think we should attempt to enforce versioned linking. i imagine it would require quite a lot of package thrashing and would make use non-standard with everyone else. we're going to need some solution that doesnt break runtime SONAMEs when we stabilize; preferably way before that. -mike
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