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On 1/27/14 6:32 AM, Max Horn wrote:
>
> On 25.01.2014, at 23:46, Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Thanks. The new stanza will be in bash-4.3-rc2/readline-6.3-rc2.
>
> Great! But actually, perhaps a second alteration should be put in... First, a
> question:
>
> So far I assumed that readline 6.x released are supposed to be backwards
> compatible in the following sense: If a binary was linked against a readline
> 6.x shared library, then one may later upgrade that shared library to
> readline 6.y for y > x and the program will still run. Or, said simple: A
> program linked against readline 6.2 should still work with readline 6.3,
> without a need for recompilation.
>
> Is that correct? If no, I did it wrong all the time and it's good I finally
> learned!
Yes, that's the idea. Minor version number changes are supposed to maintain
API/ABI compatibility. It's a bug if that assumption is violated.
> But if yes, then the currently used install_name used on Mac OS X is bad: It
> uses the full library name libreadline.6.2.dylib, but really should be using
> libreadline.6.dylib.
Sure, let me see your approach.
Chet
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