On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> > The problem with pkgsrc is that on different platforms the SONAMEs may be
> > different.
>
> Didn't the latest big changes to libtool (those that required all the
> revision bumps) fix that?

For the most part, and....

> Yeah, I know that not all packages are libtoolized, but I doubt that
> those that are not bother to set different version numbers for different
> platforms.

Right.  Where a package is still living in the frustrating dark ages of
portability (<cough> openssl <choke> <wheeze>), the SONAMEs are often the
same, but the worst case scenario is partially OS-dependent PLISTs.

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