On Sat, 2018-02-17 at 10:37 +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:

> Well, I know that and I'd like to keep it underlinked in order to make
> it possible to link with libtlc8.5 or libtcl8.6 for application which use it.

I see, I was not aware of this.

> The libtcl ABI is sufficiently stable and I don't want to restrict libexpect
> to any particular version of libtcl.

I note that libtcl does not use symbol versioning. In other cases of
mixing two versions of a library in the same process without symbol
versioning, this results in crashes. Does libtcl ABI avoid these issues?

> The libexpect manual explicitly says that any application using libexpect
> has to be linked with it and with libtcl.

Is this enforced in some way?

> If there's another reason why it shouldn't be underlinked I'd be glad
> to hear it.

Nothing apart for the usual reasons for avoiding underlinking.

> CC: [email protected], 
> tags 890228 + moreinfo
> thanks

BTW, this is a newer and simpler way to do that:

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

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