[Fwd: Re: ports/58416: [PATCH] fix broken build of textproc/xmlwrapp]

Jens Rehsack rehsack at liwing.de
Fri Oct 24 15:28:27 PDT 2003


Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:07, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> 
>>Hi Joe,
>>
>>it seems that the last update of libxml2 breaks a little bit, and the
>>below quoted forward shows where. Do you think increasing the shared
>>library version because of this API incompatibility would make sense?
> 
> 
> According to the libxml website, the ABI and API are backward
> compatible.  However, I have noticed some API breakage.  Thus far, I
> haven't noticed any ABI breakage.  What have you seen?

None, and as far as I understood the source, there is none.
But for recompiling dependend ports I thought it would make sense,
if they are updated without updating libxml2 as happend with Kirill.
Increasing the library number would force the update when updating
dependend ports.

Jens



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