Re: [Devel] broken binary compatibility

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

"Pavel Kankovsky" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 29 Jun 2002, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> 
> >  2002-02-24  David Turner  <address@hidden>
> >        * Renaming stream functions to the FT_<Subject>_<Action> scheme:     
> >   
> > 
> >  That is very, very bad thing because SO name of library was not changed
> >  while that renaming thing broke binary compatibility of library.
> 
> I do not see how those changes affected the binary interface. As far
> as I know the functions whose names changed are *private* functions
> that are *not* a part of FT2 public interface. Like everything else
> in include/freetype/internal/*.h.
Well, pango used them. While compiling something that was linking to
pango (pango compiled with old freetype) while having new freetype installed
I got undefined references to these symbols.

> --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
> "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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