On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:24:39 +0200
Eric Gentilini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> Considering a given library libfoo, which of another version supporting
> multithreading is available, called libfoo-mt.
> libfoo-mt offers all the functionnalities offered by libfoo and programs
> compiling with libfoo compile with libfoo-mt (binary versions linked with
> libfoo-mt won't run with libfoo and vice-versa).
> Should libfoo-mt be marked as creating a conflict with libfoo ? Or should it
> be sonamed "libfoomt" and depending executables linked with that name ?
I usually don't trust them when they say
libfoo-mt can run all programs which are compiled for libfoo.
I'd suggest changing the soname, and asking the upstream to
do the same.
Discovering unplanned incompatibilities is quite messy.
(c.f. slang-utf8)
regards,
junichi
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