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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