Re: versioned libraries dependencies

[Jérôme Marant <marant.logatique@fr.thalesgroup.com>]

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:59:11PM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote:
>  
>
> >  Yes I understood correctly. But it is not necessary to make it mandatory
> >  since it really depends on applications. Those which are source compatible
> >  won't require it.
> >    
>
> Yes, it is necessary to make it mandatory.
>
> If you have a library libA-ocaml-dev which build depends on
> libB-ocaml-dev _AND_ (but please not that this is the usual case)
> libB-ocaml-dev needs to be linked in each time you develop using
> libA-ocamld-dev then you have to rebuild libA each time you rebuilt
> libB, otherwise the linking against both this library will be
> impossible.

Do you hav a concrete example? It looks like a problem with applications
using libraries as shared objects. In that case, you need a scheme for
package names.

Cheers,