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[Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie AT codemages.net>]

:2009-11-08T20:17:Javier Vasquez:

> Hi,
> 
> On test, recently there was an update for directfb.  For it I had to
> add 3 library links so that gtk+2 and several other applications still
> continue to work, and also to compile (I tried recompiling them
> without the links, but could not be possible):
> 
> cd /usr/lib
> ln -s libdirectfb-1.4.so.0.2.0 libdirectfb-1.3.so.0
> ln -s libfusion-1.4.so.0.2.0 libfusion-1.3.so.0
> ln -s libdirect-1.4.so.0.2.0 libdirect-1.3.so.0

There is a reason they change the version names... It means its ABI
incompatible. Which means when it hits something it needs from those
libs it will fail badly.

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