[cc-devel] liblicense 0.7.0
Asheesh Laroia
asheesh at creativecommons.org
Fri May 16 15:23:57 EDT 2008
I just released liblicense 0.7.0 on SourceForge. It fixes the Python
bindings. They've been broken since the 0.6 release, it seems. Some
functionality in them probably worked between 0.6 and 0.7, but (read on
for more)...
LL_LICENSE and other constants were "extern const char" arrays before.
Now they're just lousy old #defines. This way, even though the strings
might appear more than once in memory, it's very simple for the IO modules
like exempi.so to refer to those constants.
Before, due to dynamic linker loading order issues, if liblicense.so were
added to a process's memory memory map at runtime, if liblicense then
tried to dlopen() its modules, the modules wouldn't be able to find those
constants. What a drag! That broke the Python bindings' ability to use
the modules.
Now, I guess that's still true, but the modules don't need actual symbols
from liblicense anymore.
I noticed this issue in the process of creating and testing RPMs for
Fedora. I had to bump the SONAME because this removes symbols from the
library.
You can grab it on SourceForge, and perhaps soon in Fedora Rawhide.
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80503&package_id=238700
-- Asheesh.
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