[Imap-uw] Re: Linking problems with imap2006b + PHP 5 on Solaris 9

[Mark Crispin]

[Redirecting to imap-uw - if you use the old c-client name it has to be
  manually approved by the moderator before being posted...]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> This can happen for the static library too and there is a standard way to
> prevent this from happening: define the version constants in the library
> header file and require the user code to pass them to the library
> initialization function.

Currently, the "library initialization function" for c-client is the 
linkage.c stuff (env_init() is OS-dependent), which sadly some developers 
fail to use (and then I get their bug reports when things don't work as 
expected...).  My preference would be to eliminate it entirely rather than 
introduce another way for things to go wrong.

In practice, I haven't observed the version skew problem with static 
library linkings, especially when you use the normal distribution and the 
.a file is in the same place as the .h files!  There's also currently no 
mechanism in place for a version which is anything other than an advisory 
string, and as you noted that needs to happen.

Maybe in a future release...

-- Mark --

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