On Thu 24 Feb 2011 17:35, Ken Raeburn <raeb...@raeburn.org> writes: > If the library ABI is tweaked to code the version into a symbol name, > this test could become a simple compile-and-link test. Of course, that > approach has other issues, like getting backwards-compatible library > upgrades to work without recompiling applications.
FWIW, Guile 2.0's library is "libguile-2.0.so". 2.2 will be "-2.2.so". Most problems of this nature will be avoided in this way. Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/