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Subject: Re: Dependency libraries and ABI
From: Keith Packard <keithp () keithp ! com>
Date: 2002-02-28 22:37:47
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Around 16 o'clock on Feb 28, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Maybe it makes sense for fontconfig/Xft to ship its own
> statically-linked copy of expat that's been sed-jobbed into the
> fontconfig/Xft namespace?
Which apps do you see that have static copies? RedHat, SuSE and Debian
all ship the same major version shared library installed by default.
I know Moz ships a static linked copy of expat, but that's in a separate
.so that isn't loaded GLOBAL so it isn't a problem.
> Which reminds me, I'm not sure we have strong ABI guarantees on
> freetype either, or guarantees that parallel install will be provided
> when the ABI changes, or any of that stuff.
The FreeType folks have this nailed; now that XFree86 depends on them,
they've got a lot of people watching every move.
Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team Compaq Cambridge Research Lab
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