Re: GNU Guile 3.0.3 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Chris,

Chris Vine <vine35792468@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 23:04:03 +0200
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> We are delighted to announce GNU Guile release 3.0.3, the third bug-fix
>> release of the new 3.0 stable series.  This release represents 170
>> commits by 17 people since version 3.0.2.  See the NEWS excerpt that
>> follows for full details.
> [snip]
>
> This has a libguile so ABI jump from libguile-3.0.so.1 to
> libguile-3.0.so.3, which breaks my binaries linked to libguile.  Is that
> normal for a micro update in the stable release series and if so can
> there be some warning in the announcement?

Yes, it means you need to relink those binaries.

I was hesitant about the SONAME: the ABI jump was unnecessary unless in
‘--disable-deprecated’ builds.  I erred on the side of cautiousness:

  
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=5d052c87bd8f0fd894e67f0bebd4fa6f6160d83c

Ludo’.