Re: incompatibility between using 1.8.1 and 1.8.2

[Andreas Rottmann]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Rottmann wrote:
>> G-Wrap also has been bitten by that; from the guile-1.8 changelog.Debian:
>> 
>> guile-1.8 (1.8.2+1-2) unstable; urgency=low
>> 
>>   * Re-enable threads.
>> 
>>  -- Rob Browning <address@hidden>  Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:59:12 -0700
>> 
>> Apparently, enabling thread support changes the ABI; to verify this is
>> indeed the problem, try texmacs together with guile-1.8 1.8.2+1-1 - if
>> I'm correct, that should fix the segfault. Then just rebuild with the
>> latest guile-1.8 to fix the problem.
>> 
>
> If texmacs is compiled with guile 1.8.2+1-1, and run on a machine having
> guile 1.8.2+1-1 then there are no problems. The problem arises only if
> there is a mix of guile versions. Does change in ABI count as a bug?
>
If there isn't a change in the SONAME, too: Yes, IMO.

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