On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:01:39 +0100 Dave wrote: DS> On 31/07/06, Ganesh Hiregoudar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DS> > In 5.3.1, I see that the library version is so.10. DS> > In Solaris 10 we have net-snmp libraries with so.5.0.9 DS> > Do we have 5.3.1 release is backward compatible ? DS> DS> We've tried to keep the library APIs backward compatible from one DS> major release to the next, but I wouldn't like to promise that the DS> library binaries will necessarily be backward compatible. DS> Particularly not a significant jump such as 5.0.x to 5.3.x. DS> You could *try* adding a symbolic link from one library to the DS> other, and see if the binaries still work. But it would be safer to DS> fully install the new version instead.
I'm going to go further and say that this won't work, and you shouldn't try it. If you upgrade the libraries, you need to rebuild any applications which use them. Rebuilding should work, as we try very hard not to break backwards compatibility of the API. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
