On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Rex Dieter
<rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Dave Johansen wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Kevin Fenzi
> > <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:00:35 -0700
> >> Dave Johansen <davejohansen(a)gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is that really true? The Qt 5 package in EPEL 6 has been updated
> >> > several times and I don't recall ever seeing an
> >> > email/announcement/etc.
> >>
> >> Were the upgrades incompatible? You have to manually intervene?
>
> > Honestly, on the machines I'm using, I installed 5.2 and haven't
updated
> > since 5.3 was released because I didn't want to rebuild and re-test all
> of
> > my stuff, but my understanding of the following is that the upgrades are
> > not completely compatible:
> >
http://upstream.rosalinux.ru/versions/qt.html
>
> Fwiw, Qt upstream takes both api and abi stability pretty seriously
> (official public interfaces). If you experience any concrete
> incompatibilities after upgrading, it's arguably a bug worth fixing.
>
Yes, but doesn't the change in the name of the .so require a rebuild?
So we can't speak in circles for a bit longer... what .so are you seeing
this happen with. Yes a changed so will break a build so if it is happening
then it needs to be looked and dealt with. A library may update itself but
not bump the .so
--
Stephen J Smoogen.