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Re: Can upset handle more than one prev: tag?
Reini schrieb:
> Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
>> I stillkeep perl-5.6.1 at the mirrors for people who don't believe that
>> the new perl-5.8 is ok. Now I have updated to 5.8.5 and removed 5.8.2
>> but got complaints because the postgres perl extension is linked against
>> 5.8.2 DLL.
> Shouldn't we then provide a cygperl5_8.dll symlinked to cygperl5_8_5.dll
> also (in linux fashion), and apps should link against cygperl5_8.dll
> resp. a more generic libperl.dll.a then?
> otherwise you'll have to recompile all dependent apps.
Should be a hardlink. Anyway, 5.8.0 was not threaded and is not
supposed to be binary compatible to 5.8.0 / 5.8.5.
> BTW:
> cygperl-5.8.5.dll filenames would also be okay, as long as the linker
> and dlopen gets the basename+extension passed.
> Without the ".dll" extension it will not be found.
>> I need to rethink the package naming if it is not possible
>> to get mroe than one prev tag into setup.ini (automatically, as
>> mentioned it works well with setup.exe).
Gerrit
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