Xfdesktop menu

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Thu Jun 16 21:22:14 CEST 2005


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> You need to recompile xfdesktop and be sure that the menu module links
> to the correct library.  This situation can happen any time an
> incompatible change occurs to one of the libraries such that it requires
> a major version bump.
> 
> However, I'm not sure why such a bump was made.  Benny, it looks like
> you incremented the library major in the end of January[1] when you
> removed the autogenerated files and added support for xfce4-dev-tools.
> Why was this necessary?  The ABI of the library hadn't been broken, AFAICT.

Last time we forgot to bump the soname, which caused all kinds of 
trouble with 4.2 and 4.0 installed side-by-side. This time we cannot 
forget to bump it, as it's already bumped. ;-)

> 	-brian

Benedikt



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