Re: libreadline

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 19:05, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> 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).

Wow, that sounds really interesting.  I want your job....

> 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?

Ah, yeah, looks like there is a compat package.  Thanks, I hadn't seen
that.  I didn't force the install with  rpm showing "so and so requires
libreadline.so.4.1", since that's generally asking for trouble.
	Greg