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Re: Soname bump
- From: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org" <libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:28:20 +0200
- Subject: Re: Soname bump
- References: <4E3BF109.1070900@redhat.com>
On 08/05/2011 03:32 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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 ?
symbols were removed from 5, so I assume the soname change is rectified.
However you should be able to just rebuild packages with 6, afaics the API
didn't change.
btw, is there any chance to see a final release of 3.0.10?
Matthias