GSL & BerkeleyDB versions

[David Relson]

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 05:11:16 +0100
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:
> 
> > True we could do that.  Has the gsl 1.3 vs 1.4 problem (changed
> > entry points but unchanged library versions) _really_ been a
> > problem?  Has it affected users?  Or are we anticipating/avoiding a
> > problem that hasn't happened?
> 
> Round-up in a different order:
> 
> When bogofilter is compiled with GSL 1.3, it will run with GSL 1.1 or
> newer.
> 
> When bogofilter is compiled with GSL 1.4, it will run with GSL 1.4 or
> newer.
> 
> The package manager on typical distributions has no chance of sorting
> out the differences between the GSL versions because the SONAME (that
> is what package managers, such as RPM, look for) is the same.
> 
> You have upgraded Mandrake to 9.2, and in this process, libgsl0 was
> upgraded from 1.3 to 1.4 - this is where the trouble begins.

So, the gsl-1.4 dependency can cause a problem when gsl-1.3 is
installed.  Since I'm building with gsl-1.4 and db4.1, should we list
both of them as rpm dependencies?