[arch-general] SMPlayer and Qt

[Lars Tennstedt]

Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> Lars Tennstedt wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I don't know. But your reply tells me that it does not matter. I guess 
>> that the differences between Qt 4.5.3 and 4.5.2 only consists of bug 
>> fixes and are not that important.
>>
>> Have a nice day!
>> Lars
>>
>> Allan McRae wrote:
>>> Lars Tennstedt wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> SMPlayer version 0.6.8 (SVN r3213) form the repository is compiled 
>>>> with Qt 4.5.2. At the moment the version of Qt is 4.5.3. Is it time 
>>>> to rebuild SMPlayer?
>>>
>>> Does it matter?
>>>
>>> Allan
> 
> It's dynamically linked [1] against Qt, so it will use the version of 
> the library that is currently installed on the system. In this case, 
> SMPlayer also reports that it's using Qt 4.5.3 in its about menu: "Using 
> Qt 4.5.3 (compiled with Qt 4.5.2)". A rebuild of an application is 
> required when one or more of the libraries it links against gets a 
> "soname bump" which would indicate that its ABI [2] has changed.
> 
> Oh, and please use bottom-posting [3] when replying. :)
> 
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> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_%28computing%29#Dynamic_linking
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface
> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Bottom-posting

Hi,

you see that I read the sites on wikipedia. Thanks for the links. I have 
learned something new today.

See you,
Lars