Dave Peticolas wrote:
>
> Clark Jones writes:
> > Developers:
[...]
> > I would suggest that whoever's the keeper of the "makefile" that's used for
> > the RPM please consider looking to see if you can't chop off the ".4" on
> > libguile.so and the ".3" on libreadline.so so that we can use the "generic"
> > softlinks.
[...]
> The problem is one we're really not supposed to work around. As I
> understand it, the idea behind changing the library major version is
> that it is *supposed* to break backwards compatibility, because the
> library developers have decided that the api has changed enough that
> backwards compatibility cannot be supported.
>
> In the guile case, it seems that "fooling" the system into using the
> new library with a soft link will still work, but in general it's not
> something we should be doing automatically.
The guile package itself plants soft links for major versions 3, 5, and 6,
all pointing to 6.0.0. (The GnuCash problem seems to be arising from the
fact that it isn't planting one for version 4. To me, this suggests that
major version 4 had some major muck-up, and shouldn't be used at all...)
> The correct way to solve this problem would be to build a binary package
> on a mandrake system, and have mandrake users use that instead. Ditto for
> SuSE, etc.
Unnecisarily linking to a specific version will still be a problem. If there
is a good reason for tying to a specific version of a given library, then
it seems to me that the particular version of the library in question should
be copied to the application (in this case, GnuCash's) download area, to
assure its continued availability. I have yet to find sources for guile 4,
let alone an RPM (but since it works fine with 6, I've quit trying, and never
did try too hard -- I probably could have if I'd wanted to badly enough).
Clark
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