gEDA-dev: 1.2.x libgeda compatibility

[Peter TB Brett]

On Tuesday 01 January 2008 21:42:05 Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 09:04:55PM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> > This should "just work" if it is called libgeda31. I just checked
> > packages.debianorg. The 1.2.0 released gEDA packages depend on libgeda31
> > (>= 1:1.2.0) which will be satisfied by this newer version of libgeda31.
> > If installing this new libgeda31 broke any of the 1.2.0 versions of the
> > apps, then yes, we would have a problem. In this case, I don't think we
> > do. geda-gschem-1.2.1 will just need to depend on libgeda31 (>= 1:1.2.1)
>
> Your reasoning is correct. However, installing new libgeda31 (1.2.1)
> does break the installed 1.2.0 applications. gschem segfaults on
> startup for me.

I can't reproduce this: I've tried several times.  Could you please give me 
some steps which someone who's not running Debian could reproduce?

> Now I'm a little stuck. I have started work on the libgeda31.1 rename
> but not finished all of it yet. I have not yet tried Peter Brett's patch.
> Ales says that this version is not expected to be compatible with 1.2.0
> anyway (despite the major version number indicating otherwise to the
> dynamic linker). I would appreciate some guidance on this issue :-)

I disagree with Ales, for what it's worth (i.e. very little).

                               Peter

-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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