Upgrading readline

Jeff Pitman symbiont at berlios.de
Wed Dec 8 18:33:19 UTC 2004


On Thursday 09 December 2004 02:14, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > For upgrading readline to a new major release (in Fedora
> > development), do I need to provide a readline4 package, or is it
> > sufficient to just rebuild the packages that depend on it?
>
> A compat library may be nice, considering the number of apps that
> link against it.

Check ABI compat within pkg first.  Eg, you can link python 1.5 against 
db4 cuz db4 has db1-ish stuff still.  Reduction of compat madness is 
optimal.

have fun,
-- 
-jeff




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