hi everyone, as you said the breakage was due to the fact that you compiled against a different version than the one you linked against. the fact that the ABI is not backwards compatible is also known and accepted, that's the reason there is only a static library and not a shared one. the ABI is meant to change on each version update, or at least is never guaranteed to stay the same, so there isn't really that much to document specific to this version.
I do agree that comparing a version from the header with the one in the lib would be a usefull thing, but it is more of an upstream suggestion than a debian packaging problem. also note that unless you do some linker or preprocessor trickery (which is a bit objectionable as well), that check would still have to be done by the calling program... all in all: I understand your problem but don't quite see what we can do about it except pointing out that it's a static library, which implies that you need to link against the same stuff that you compiled against... regards robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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