New Pixman Naming Scheme

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Wednesday 08 of August 2007, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:19:14PM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> > > Having a version number in the library name is just good practice
> > > IMO. It doesn't hurt anything and it substantially reduces the pain
> > > involved if an incompatible version has to be released.
> >
> > Forgive me if I'm missing something but have major numbers not been part
> > of libraries for ages???
> >
> > if I have
> > /usr/lib/libpixman.so.1.0
> >
> > installed with cairo linked against it, there is nothing wrong with me
> > also having
> > /usr/lib/libpixman.so.2.0 installed and having Xserver link against
> > that!!
>
> The problem is that if you have libpixman.so.1 with int foo(long bar),
> and libpixman.so.2 with void foo(int bar), which are _both linked into
> the same executable_: say Cairo links against 2, and GTK+ links against
> 1.  Resolution for foo will be random, thanks to a flat namespace, so
> eventually you're going to hit the wrong one.
>
> You can fix this pretty easily with versioned symbols, but pixman
> doesn't do that.

but when you link with both libpixman and libpixman-1 you still have the same 
problem. -1 doesn't solve anything here.

> Cheers,
> Daniel



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