Russ Allbery wrote: > Felipe Sateler <fsate...@gmail.com> writes: > >> But: >> % objdump -p /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5 | grep glib >> NEEDED libglib-2.0.so.0 > >> If gkt+ encourages using glib types, there is no problem while gtk itself >> uses glib types, as far as I can see. Or is there something I'm missing? > > The application that uses glib types has to link directly against glib, or > if the SONAME of glib changes and gtk's doesn't, the application will fail > in some nasty ways. (It may be that the library management practices of > those two projects ensures this doesn't happen, but it really should be > enforced technically.)
But this will cause trouble anyway. Imagine this case: glib changes SONAME, both app and library depend on glib. app is recompiled, gtk isn't yet.So then app NEEDED libglib-2.0.so.1, gtk NEEDED libglib-2.0.so.0. Kaboom! The only real solution is to make gtk's SONAME dependent on glib's, eg libgtk- x11-2.0.so.0-glib-1 (a la boost upstream with gcc versions). -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
