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* Re: [gentoo-science] [PATCH 00/10] alternatives-2.eclass updates
  @ 2014-01-21 21:26 99%     ` François Bissey
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From: François Bissey @ 2014-01-21 21:26 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 2014-01-22 10:21, justin wrote:
> On 21/01/14 18:04, Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
>> * given the number of bugs, we should keep the linking to the 
>> reference
>> names libraries, so we could eselect providers without re-compiling 
>> all
>> reverse dependencies. We could do this in the open sourced providers 
>> by
>> changing the soname of the libraries we compile, and in the binary 
>> ones
>> (mkl,amcl...) with a link script generated library.
> 
> I don't get this point. Why do we need to play around with sonames?
> Doesn't this bring more problems and maintainer burden then letting the
> consumer recompile reverse dependencies? Are the libs all ABI 
> compatible?
> 
All libs are supposed to be ABI compatible. For soname look at my 
previous post.
If you want to interchange libblas on the fly you need to have the same 
soname
for the library.

Francois


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