On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:17:28PM -0800, Gilad Benjamini wrote: > My program dynamically links to libevent. > > If I compile with 1.4.8, will it properly work on machines where 1.4.9 is > installed ? > > And the other way around ?
If there is an incompatible ABI change libevent should change the SONAME
so your program will take the older version it was compiled against.
At least thats one of the two ways to correctly handle ABI breakage.
(The other would be symbol versioning)
Flo
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