Hey, On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 03:01:54PM +0300, Alon Levy wrote: > But I thought it doesn't break existing users. If it does that's not > what I meant. I thought the important name was that before the .so, i.e. > libspice-server, and that the dynamic linker will look for .1 and then > if none found will use anything newer. Nope, it will look for an exact match for libspice-server.so.N, so if a binary was built against libspice-server.so.1, the binary won't run with anything different. If a library is ABI compatible with an older version but has newer interfaces, the soname must not change for older binaries to keep using it. Christophe
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