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Re: jpeg update and shlibs going backwards



Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:28:43AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Do you know why the shlib version changed?  It sort of looks like the
>> basic problem of people not understanding shlib numbering and thinking
>> the version number belongs there, but I didn't quite find in the sources
>> where it is set.  The README is entirely lacking in discussing ABI
>> change issues.
>
> The symbol list of the library changed quite a bit and I am not sure
> none of those symbols is used externally. As such it is warranted.

OK - too bad upstream is like this.

I symlinked libjpeg.so.7 to libjpeg.so.62 and emacs and firefox seem to
work.  Not saying I won't rebuild them, but as an emergency workaround
until the build finishes...

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