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[gtk-list] Re: shared lib binary compatibility? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen Taylor)
Tue Sep 16 23:41:12 1997
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
From: Owen Taylor <owt1@cornell.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 1997 23:42:53 -0400
In-Reply-To: Ray Lehtiniemi's message of Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:26:35 -0400 (EDT)
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Ray Lehtiniemi <ray.lehtiniemi@crosskeys.com> writes:
> i sent this a few days back, but it didn;t seem to hit the archive at
> redhat, so i'm resending....
>
> it appears that the gtk+-970828 interface isn't binary compatible with the
> one distributed with gimp-0.99.pre11. the size of GdkEvent has changed,
> so a gimp compiled against the pre11 gtk+ won;t run against the 970828
> shared libs.
>
> it's not a problem to recompile everything of course, but it would be nice
> to just update the shared libs. is the interface stable enough to expect
> this to work, or will i have to recompile gimp against each new gtk+
> snapshot?
I think you shouldn't need to recompile from gtk+970828 to gtk+970916.
At least, an old binary of the GIMP I have around seems to work
without obvious problems. I suppose Peter will eventually start to put
real version numbers on the libraries, but just changing the minor
versions doesn't help with binary incompatibility, and I think we'd be
at about libgtk.so.7.2.1 now if major numbers had been changed every
time binary compatibility was broken in early development.
I personally don't have any plans to break binary compatibility again
in the near future (I was the culprit with gtk+970828 and GdkEvent)
but I doubt the interface has _completely_ stabilized. Your best bet
may be to try not recompiling, and if you get errors, recompile.
Regards,
Owen
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