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Re: Soname bump
Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> On 08/08/2011 04:48 AM, Anthony Green wrote:
>> Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> There has been a soname bump to libffi.so.6. Why was this? Will older
>>> packages linked against libffi.so.5 still work? Can I perhaps just symlink
>>> libffi.so.6 -> libffi.so.5 ?
>>
>> Some debug functions that have should never have been exported were
>> removed from production builds a few months ago (src/debug.c). It's
>> highly unlikely anybody was using them, but I wanted to stick with the
>> rules defined in libtool-version. Here's the ChangeLog entry...
>>
>> 2011-02-11 Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
>>
>> * libtool-version: Update.
>> * Makefile.am (nodist_libffi_la_SOURCES): Add src/debug.c if
>> FFI_DEBUG.
>> (libffi_la_SOURCES): Remove src/debug.c
>> (EXTRA_DIST): Add src/debug.c
>> * Makefile.in: Rebuilt.
>
> Oh, I see. This is a PITA because we need a new libffi for ARM Fedora 15 --
> the old libffi doesn't work -- but we can't change the soname in the
> Fedora package. I'm not sure exactly what to do.
What's the issue with bumping the soname? Can't you just rebuild
dependencies?
AG