Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Improve some details in time service documentation.

[Hal Murray]

>> How about including the REVISION string in the libraries, either directly 
as
>> a string or a procedure that returns a string.  Then clients can check to 
>> make sure they are getting the right library.

address@hidden said:
> That's what shared library version and revision numbers are for.  I don't
> thing trying to maintain a parallel system of revision mumbers would be
> anything but trouble. 

Except that it didn't work in one of my test cases when RPATH was broken.  We 
are still debugging the RPATH stuff so that seems like cheap insurance.  
(Yes, it's ugly.  I don't have a better suggestion that is very likely to 
work.)

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