[OE-core] js 185 -> js186_1.0.0

Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan jin at mediatomb.cc
Tue Apr 10 15:22:44 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:14:58PM +0300, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> Have a problem while updating js to version 185. This version renames the
> library in libmozjs185. What to do in order to avoid breaking packages which
> need libjs? Another interesting thing is that js is now called js185_1.0.0
> which seems to be actually another package / implementation? I will try to test
> this using symlinks while compiling web package. 

JS 1.8.5 is not backwards compatible! This is the reason why they renamed the
libs, you can not link older software against JS 1.8.5 without adaptions, the
new version has a new API.

Kind regards,
Jin






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