Ubuntu's multisearch surprise
Ubuntu's multisearch surprise
Posted Aug 10, 2009 0:42 UTC (Mon) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)In reply to: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise by drag
Parent article: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise
That looks good in principle, but tends to break easily when faced with different apps requiring different versions of libraries that don't maintain ABI compatibility. You can change the soname, but you're still in trouble if you encounter a linkage chain like:
- libx1.1
- libthirdparty
- libx1.2
- theapplication
Symbol versioning of libx can help, but doesn't seem to solve all the issues.
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