Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:18:31 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> To: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: About gtk library versions and dlopen() Message-ID: <433A43C7.8040303@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <433A380F.9080104@FreeBSD.org> References: <4338F205.7030808@ebs.gr> <1127805775.50068.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <433902C5.8080507@ebs.gr> <433A380F.9080104@FreeBSD.org>
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Alexander Nedotsukov wrote: > 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. OK, thanks. I got the impression that it was somehow possible without the symlink. > BTW I have eclipse + GNOME 2.12 running w/o problems you referring to. This was an issue for which we already have a fix in Eclipse, but I was researching the issue to minimize our diffs from the Eclipse Linux port. Thanks, Panagiotis
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