# To subscribers of the xforms list from John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> :
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Michal Szymanski wrote:
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from Michal Szymanski <msz@astrouw.edu.pl> :
>
> Hi Xformers,
>
> It's rather a kind of joke, to entertain you a bit.
>
> CHANGES file coming with 0.89 says it is source-compatible with 0.88.
> Well, it is not. My application happens to use "logical" contants
> TRUE and FALSE, which were defined in 0.88 <forms.h> but not
> in 0.89.
I would guess this is a pretty minor source incompatibility :))
>
> BTW, the shared library coming with XForms is always built in such
> a strange way, that the executables linked with it have full version
> number hard-coded. Namely, e.g. libforms.so.0.88. So after upgrading,
> even when the next version is binary compatible, it does not work.
> This is unusual, as most of other shared libs get into executables
> only with major number, so the upgrades in minor number version
> work fine without recompiling or making fake older library.
> Couldn't it be so with XForms?
>
Did you actually run ldconfig ? At least on my machine it will create the
expected symbolic links
john
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