> > There is apparantly an EGCS patch called libapi, available in the > > Debian egcs package, which is supposed to implement the above. > > Adopting and improving this patch would definitely solve your GNOME > > problems, Jim. > > Can you give us some pointers? This sounds like a good thing for the gnome > people to adopt upstream as well..
It's in the egcs package. # DP: Patch to include the c++ compiler interface, the libstdc++ version # DP: and the libc version in the libstdc++ soname. (From H.J. Lu) It's why the libstdc++ libs look like: libstdc++-2-libc6.0-1-2.9.0.so SONAME libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 The only problem is, for libgnome, the library might end up looking like: libgnomeui-31-esd0-glib1.1.3-gtk1.1.3-imlib1.so Gawd knows what I'd name the package as. It's just a variation on the bumping the soname idea. We'd still have the problem where we'd get a huge explosion in the number of libraries hanging around. Cheers, - Jim
