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Re: Difference in libcurl.so.3 and libcurl.so.4

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:56:25 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Scoped Ptr wrote:

> Can anbody tell me the major changes in libcurl.so.3 and libcurl.so.4 ?

The last libcurl.so.3 was 7.15.5. All release since with all their changes
have been in the number 4. You can check the list of changes yourself:

         http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html#7_15_5

> I see both on my system and which one to choose?

The most recent one => the highest number.

> I also see libcurl-gnutls.so.[3,4] and want to know to which library will my
> application be linking when I link to libcurl dynamically?

It depends on what lib you tell the linker to use at link-time and what libs
you provide with that name at run-time.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2008-08-07