[yocto] question about installing multiple versions of a single library

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> On Monday 04 August 2014 05:29:45 Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday at crashcourse.ca]
> > >Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 2:05 AM
> > >To: Rifenbark, Scott M
> > >Subject: question about installing multiple versions of a single library
> > >
> > >  sorry for the interruption, i'm reading dev manual here:
> > >http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-> >manual.html#installing-multiple-versions-of-the-same-library
> > >
> > >and the example used (clutter) doesn't even exist in oe-core with those
> > >version numbers, i was looking for another example that actually exists,
> > >didn't immediately see one.
> > >
> > >  more to the point, the version numbers used in those clutter recipe files
> > >  look>
> > >weird:
> > >     clutter-1.6_1.6.20.bb
> > >     clutter-1.8_1.8.4.bb
> > >
> > >i'm not used to seeing recipe files that appear to combine a
> > >higher version number *and* what looks like a minor version
> > >number upgrade as well. do you know what's going on there? maybe
> > >that's not the best example for trying to explain this topic.
>
> The specific versions of clutter may no longer exist in the
> metadata, but we do still use this scheme for clutter recipes and
> others (gstreamer comes to mind). The point is you change PN to be
> version-specific - you have clutter-1.6 and clutter-1.8, such that
> you can depend on the specific version where needed.

  ah, i see ... the software name is not simply "clutter", it is
"clutter-1.6" or "clutter-1.8". got it.

rday

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