Re: libpoppler mismatch for pdflatex

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:24:23AM +0000, maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
 > The better fail scenario where it fails (btw) is:
 > 
 > 
 > 	[poppler]
 >        /         \
 > [lib A]		[lib B]
 >        \	 /
 >         \	/
 > 	[binary]
 > 
 > partially updating one side of this (poppler, lib A, binary) will fail
 > unpredictably if lib B.
 > 
 > Suppose libA calls poppler_do_action, and libB calls poppler_do_action
 > too. Whether the old or new poppler function is used is unreliable.
 > 
 > If they are the same - no problem.
 > If it changed - random runtime crashes.

This cannot be fixed properly (in general) without moving away from ELF :-)

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost