On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:05:51 +0200 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Chris Vine <vine35792...@gmail.com> skribis: > > > On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 23:04:03 +0200 > > Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> We are delighted to announce GNU Guile release 3.0.3, the third bug-fix > >> release of the new 3.0 stable series. This release represents 170 > >> commits by 17 people since version 3.0.2. See the NEWS excerpt that > >> follows for full details. > > [snip] > > > > This has a libguile so ABI jump from libguile-3.0.so.1 to > > libguile-3.0.so.3, which breaks my binaries linked to libguile. Is that > > normal for a micro update in the stable release series and if so can > > there be some warning in the announcement? > > Yes, it means you need to relink those binaries. > > I was hesitant about the SONAME: the ABI jump was unnecessary unless in > ‘--disable-deprecated’ builds. I erred on the side of cautiousness: > > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=5d052c87bd8f0fd894e67f0bebd4fa6f6160d83c
Hi, Ah right. There must have been two SO breaks between guile-3.0.2 and guile-3.0.3. It's a nuisance having SO bumps on micro releases and I wonder if that could be included in the announcement so that you don't first notice it when stuff fails to run? Chris