On Wednesday, 28 January 2026 08:18:05 GMT Bruno Haible wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > $ find ~/_Inline/ -type f
> > /home/branden/_Inline/config-x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi-5.032001
> > /home/branden/_Inline/lib/auto/gropdf_1c9b/gropdf_1c9b.inl
> > /home/branden/_Inline/lib/auto/gropdf_1c9b/gropdf_1c9b.so
> > /home/branden/_Inline/.lock
> >
> > > Also, if different versions of groff produce shared libraries with
> > > different APIs, you will need to include the groff version in the file
> > > name, because the user may be running different groff versions at
> > > different times (or even at the same time).
> >
> > This much is not the case. Apart from gnulib, with which many people
> > are familiar (and which supports no DSO configuration TTBOMK), the groff
> > build produces up to four libraries--libgroff, libdriver, libbib, and
> > libxutil--but all are static (".a" files).
>
> No, I'm talking about the ABI of the .so file:
Groff version does not matter (gropdf is execced as a perl script) so the .so
only has to match the perl installed, different perl triggers new .so.
Cheers
Deri
