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