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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About libpng-1.4 handling
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:43:39
Message-Id: 201005101442.55313.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About libpng-1.4 handling by Samuli Suominen
1 On Monday 10 May 2010 13:27:48 Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > On 05/10/2010 08:11 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
3 > > * what is the recommended way to link to libpng (versioned lib or not)
4 > > * corollary to previous question, should we enforce link to versioned
5 > > lib only ?
6 >
7 > You get correct lib to link from `pkg-config --libs libpng` or if you
8 > need to avoid pkg-config, then e.g. AC_CHECK_LIB for unversioned png.
9
10 i dont think we should attempt to enforce versioned linking. i imagine it
11 would require quite a lot of package thrashing and would make use non-standard
12 with everyone else. we're going to need some solution that doesnt break
13 runtime SONAMEs when we stabilize; preferably way before that.
14 -mike

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