On 10/27/10 1:05 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno mer, 27/10/2010 alle 12.49 +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." ha > scritto: >> Some context first. Upstream does not promise any binary compatibility >> between releases, so each version has a different SONAME, if any. > > That's a good approach (although a bothersome for its users)..
By the way, what do you think about <http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker> ? >> Currently dev-lang/v8 does not use SONAME (I think that's the default), >> because I'm not sure what's the best way to handle it. > > That's bad, it _has_ to have a SONAME, otherwise you're indicating that > al the versions have the same ABI (which as you just said is not the > case). That's one of the reasons it's still hard masked. > Okay now you're confusing the two concepts. The DT_SONAME tag has > nothing to do with the name on the filesystem for what concerns the link > editor, it's used by the dynamic loader. > > The link above would be fine though, just let it link as libv8.so, and > then be loaded as libv8-1.2.3.so. Ah, thanks! I think I understand it much better now. Bumped v8, now with SONAME and a symlink. I was able to compile www-client/chromium against that, and added an experimental system-v8 USE flag to it.
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