Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:28:53 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: About gtk library versions and dlopen() Message-ID: <433902C5.8080507@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <1127805775.50068.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <4338F205.7030808@ebs.gr> <1127805775.50068.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 10:17 +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > >>I see that in the marcuscom repository the gtk libraries have a version >>of 0 (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0), whereas the current stable port has a >>version of 600 (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.600). Could someone please explain the >>logic behind the gtk library versioning and whether the committed gnome >>2.12 will keep the 0 versions? > > > The .0 versions are more inline with Linux's versions. Jean-Yves > devised a libtool hack to restore "proper" library versioning, so we > will keep these .0 versions for as long as the Linux guys do. Great, thanks. >>The main issue I'm trying to solve is whether we can dlopen a shared >>library on FreeBSD by specifying a version number of 0 and let the >>dynamic linker load the version that is currently installed. It seems >>that Eclipse on Linux and other Unix systems does this and they claim we >>have a weird linker. > > > Yes, we can. However, in the past we had versions that changed with > each minor release. Now we are trying to be more consistent with other > platforms so things like dlopen'ing libraries will work out-of-the-box. Excellent. Out of curiosity, in the current scheme of things, how can I dlopen() a libfoo.so.0 and get the existing libfoo.so.600 loaded? Do I need something other than RTLD_LAZY? Thanks, Panagiotis
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