Re: libreadline

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com> writes:
> I've just recompiled librep here, on 7.0 as I always do, and noticed
> that it doesn't install on 7.2, because there's a new readline.  I
> thought things were supposed to be forward compatible between 7.0 and
> 7.2, but this doesn't seem to work.  Does anybody know if readline 4.1
> and readline 4.2 are binary compatible?

You're right that they're supposed to be (though I'm busily trying to
document which libs we actually _do_ support as bin compatible over
time, because right now the list of libs is too long, and screwups are
inevitable - so hopefully we can drop the ABI guarantees for lots of
them).

I have no idea what the actual situation with readline is,
however. What error do you get? Has the major version simply changed,
or is some symbol missing? Maybe there's a compat package you could
install?

Havoc