On 18/09/17 16:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 14:28:37 CEST schrieb M. J. Everitt:
>> <snip>
>>
>> Would a virtual help any? Probably overlooking a good number of factors,
>> but wasn't mentioned yet ...
>>
> So far I don't see how...  Virtual would mean that the same functionality is 
> provided by different packages, and that they can be exchanged at runtime. 
> However, for rpc there are different library *names* (sonames) to be linked, 
> and for nls the soversion is different... Even if the headers were identical, 
> that wouldnt work :/
>
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. So you'd even need a common API
(header, etc) to be able to do some fudgery linking the lib names even.

MJE

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