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Date:      Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:28:31 +0900
From:      Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr>
Cc:        gnome <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: About gtk library versions and dlopen()
Message-ID:  <433A380F.9080104@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <433902C5.8080507@ebs.gr>
References:  <4338F205.7030808@ebs.gr>	<1127805775.50068.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <433902C5.8080507@ebs.gr>

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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?
...
> 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?
You can not do that. And normally you do not want to. If all you need is 
just a most recent libfoo version than try dlopen() libfoo.so symbolic link.
BTW I have eclipse + GNOME 2.12 running w/o problems you referring to.

All the best,
Alexander.




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