[Development] Co-installation & library naming rules

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Sep 24 11:42:43 CEST 2012


On segunda-feira, 24 de setembro de 2012 11.33.40, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> On Friday, September 21, 2012 16:47:11 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > In particular, note that it's also possible to load two different major
> > versions of a given library into memory, as the dynamic linker only cares
> > about the full soname. More often than not, that's a bad idea.
> > 
> > Note: does not apply to Qt Quick 2, since the version number is already
> > part  of the base library name.
> 
> I don't think QtQuick2 is a good example. The library is called
> libQtQuick.so, and the '2' refers to the QML-based-API version, not the
> SONAME and not the Qt major version.

Right, my bad. The number 2 should be in the library name, since it refers to 
the QML-based API version.

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