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

Andrei Gherzan andrei at gherzan.ro
Tue Apr 10 16:02:23 UTC 2012


Thank you very much for this clarification.

@Saul, about upgrading js. This upgrade will break web, web-webkit and
maybe more. How do you want to solve this issue? I compiled js180.

@g


On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 18:22, Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan
<jin at mediatomb.cc>wrote:

> 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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