Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> For now I'll include a symlink libmysqlclient_r.so -> libmysqlclient.so, >> so that a simple rebuild with no source-code changes should be >> sufficient. Â Eventually we'll probably want to fix the source code to >> not refer to libmysqlclient_r, but that might take awhile if upstreams >> are worried about portability. > With the above change, is it reasonable to assume that the mysql5.5 > package will not be backwards compatible? In other words, if I build > some software against mysql5.5, can't I use it against mysql5.1 ? If you're building it against libmysqlclient_r, yes you'll have an issue, but ISTM you're likely to have other issues anyway if you expect ABI compatibility in that direction. regards, tom lane
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