Re: Checking breakage of backward compatibility

[Dennis Leeuw]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2006, at 12:46, David Ayers wrote:
>
> > I'm almost indifferent on the subject.  But in practice I believe  people
> > will unknowingly break binary compatibility and forget to bump the SO
> > name.  I think this is worse than forcing folks to recompile apps just
> > because the SO name bumped even though it didn't break binary
> > compatibility.... but like I said.  I wouldn't mind either way.
>
>
> That worries me too ... but I think we *must* try to be strict about it.
> Is there any way we could devise an automated test for binary  
> compatibility breakage?

I once tried that... but the problem is you can only do that for the 
installed libraries. Is there a way I can ask a program to reveal what 
it needs? I only found tools that said what a lib supplies.

Greetings,

Dennis