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From: Jim Nutt <jim@×××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Libpng 1.2.1 / force rebuild
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 23:06:05
Message-Id: 20020403222937.621b5c1d.jim@nuttz.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Libpng 1.2.1 / force rebuild by Spider
1 On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:50:57 +0200
2 Spider <spider@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Hello,
5 > we are dropping behind in libpng versions quite badly, but I fear the
6 > move to the new version will be a difficult one.
7 >
8 > When emerging libpng-1.2.1 it will break almost all programs that link
9 > to libpng.so.2, (new version is libpng.so.3)
10
11 Maybe I'm missing something, but why not leave libpng.so.2 in place, add libpng.so.3 and link libpng.so to libpng.so.3? Isn't that the way it's supposed to work? Applications linked against .2 can still find it, and new compiles get .3.
12
13 jim

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