On 1 Feb 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > JG> Exactly what I mentioned during the libtool thread, however that > JG> doesn't seem to be important. Ideally we could have a > JG> /usr/lib/gnome-compat dir <lol> > > Bwahahahahah! :D
My thoughts exactly :> We are going to do this again when libstdc++3.0 comes out and repeatedly for the gnome/gtk things > If we made every library automatically bump its soname when it was > linked against different dependents, and we had managed to convince > our Chapeau Rouge compatriots to do the same, we would all be running > nice, compatible systems without any weird linker magic. Sounds like a nice libtool feature, after all this is not a linux specific problem. > There is apparantly an EGCS patch called libapi, available in the > Debian egcs package, which is supposed to implement the above. > Adopting and improving this patch would definitely solve your GNOME > problems, Jim. Can you give us some pointers? This sounds like a good thing for the gnome people to adopt upstream as well.. Jason