Binary compatiblity for liboxygenstyle.so

[Pino Toscano]

Alle venerdì 24 febbraio 2012, Hugo Pereira Da Costa ha scritto:
> On 02/24/2012 11:43 AM, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > Alle venerdì 24 febbraio 2012, Hugo Pereira Da Costa ha scritto:
> >> no there is no guarantee for liboxygenstyle.so.4, and I don't plan
> >> to guarantee it.
> >> It is all internal to kde-workspace, and has no public api.
> > 
> > Then please correctly bump its SONAME, instead of using the same
> > SONAME (liboxygenstyle.so.4) for API-/ABI- incompatible new
> > versions of it.
> 
> Hi Pino,
> 
> I think the real issue here is:
> 
> despite the fact that you have a local kde build, the pluggins that
> gets loaded by Qt when running a KDE or Qt application are not the
> ones you compiled. An old one is used instead, that is inconsistent
> with the libraries it links to.
> The new, compiled one, should get loaded.
> No change of so name will fix that.
> Correct ?

No, because the old plugin would link to the liboxygenstyle with the old 
SONAME, which would not get overwritten/overridden by a newer version 
coming from the local KDE build.
Except for the unversioned .so symlink, two versions of the same library 
with different SONAME (properly compliled) are co-installable.

-- 
Pino Toscano
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