Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem appears to be that libqt2 now links to libpng3 rather than > libpng2. When the dynamic linker loads a QT-dependent application still > linked against libpng2, it overrides libqt2's png symbols with the png > symbols defined in the application, so any png calls from inside qt will > crash. Recompiling all applications to deal with this feels like the > wrong answer; perhaps qt-x11 should be built with something like '-B > symbolic' instead.
That's the problem; there is just no real solution besides a big recompile. Whenever library A uses library B, and the library B soname bumps up, you now have the problem. Packages that use either basically must be recompiled, or they likely end up with two copies of library B (one under each soname), and the two probably will collide.
