In the same vein, the code to display the versions of SQLite, Botan and so on might be misleading in a shared library environment. Maybe it should display both the versions it was compiled against and the versions it's running against (if that's possible to find out, which isn't always a given).
Cheers, Richard In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:12:01 +0200 (CEST), Richard Levitte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: richard> Hello, richard> richard> I've been watching the development of the net.venge.monotone.stripped richard> branch for a bit, and I'm starting to notice some dependencies that I richard> find concerning. richard> richard> Just a moment ago, I saw a change that made the montone code depend on richard> the version of SQLITE as described by a C macro. That's fine and richard> dandy provided you link monotone with the static library, but what richard> happens if it's linked with the shared library and then moved to richard> another machine with a more modern (or even slightly older!) version richard> of SQLite? richard> The hex function that was just defined might already exist on a target richard> machine that has SQLite 3.3.14, but monotone would still try to inject richard> its own version if it was built on a machine that has SQLite 3.3.12. richard> I don't know how SQLite handles such cases, but I do know that not richard> paying attention to that kind of thing have and still can lead to richard> problems. richard> richard> Cheers, richard> Richard richard> richard> -- richard> Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard> http://richard.levitte.org/ richard> richard> "Life is a tremendous celebration - and I'm invited!" richard> -- from a friend's blog, translated from Swedish richard> richard> richard> _______________________________________________ richard> Monotone-devel mailing list richard> Monotone-devel@nongnu.org richard> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
