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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:57:26 -0500
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        "Michael Johnson" <ahze@freebsd.org>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org, mezz@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: improving vlc-devel
Message-ID:  <200702261157.27266@aldan>
In-Reply-To: <b2203fed0702260813p616d62d4x92971dee1d557e7e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200702260942.27062@aldan> <b2203fed0702260813p616d62d4x92971dee1d557e7e@mail.gmail.com>

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On Monday 26 February 2007 11:13, Michael Johnson wrote:
= That's not the reason we use LibName.LibVersion in VLC. VLC and many other
= programs hard link to LibName.LibVersion, we keep the LibVersion in there so
= it reduces the amount of bug reports we get.
= 
= Here is an example if libx264.so.50 changes to libx264.so.99 (I chose x264
= since we patch it to control the LibVersion number to reduce the number of
= rebuilds on VLC and mplayer)

[...]

= I'm open to a patch that makes VLC link to LibName.so instead of
= LibName.so.LibVersion.

Michael, you are not even wrong... FreeBSD's run-time linker's behaviour and 
port's dependencies are different domains and have little to do with each 
other.

If you don't have an actual example of breakage from the changes I propose, 
please, just take my word for it...

	-mi



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