Xfdesktop menu

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Jun 16 21:33:01 CEST 2005


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Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 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. ;-)

Ah, good call.  We can always count on you to think of problems before
they happen ^_^.

	-brian

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