Hi Andrey,

Thank you for reporting the problem. 
On Apr 4, 2011, at 6:39 AM, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I suppose you might be interested to see the results of backward binary 
> compatibility tests for libhdf5 [1]. I've got the request from Debian 
> maintainers to add this library to the tracker. Hope it may be useful for you 
> too.
> 
> I see the one very dangerous change in the libhdf5 binary interface between 
> 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 versions [2], but the soname was not bumped: the value of 
> H5T_ORDER_NONE member has been changed from 3 to 4 in the H5T_order_t 
> enumeration type (i.e. old apps execute H5T_ORDER_MIXED instead of NONE).
Applications shouldn't use numbers, but you are correct about the soname 
version. Will fix.

Elena
> 
> BTW
> The tests were performed by the ACC tool [3].
> 
> [1] Test results for HDF5
> [2] libhdf5: 1.8.5 to 1.8.6 binary compatibility report
> [3] ABI Compliance Checker (ACC)
> 
> -- 
> Andrey Ponomarenko
> Department for Operating Systems at ISPRAS
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