Re: [Libevent-users] Linking with -levent

[Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/05/2012 15:22, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> I'd like to do it, but I'm worried about the hundreds of projects that
> it would break -- namely, the ones that don't use pkgconfig.  One of
> my guiding principles with Libevent is not to break existing
> well-formed code, and I'd like to stick to that as far as I can.

Fair enough, I guess it can wait for another few release cycles, maybe 
libevent 3.0 ;-)

> Is there any way to build the libevent library so that people linking
> it get a useful warning at link time?  I know it's possible to do with
> some unixy systems at least, looking at the __warn_references trickery
> that OpenBSD uses to call me out whenever I strcpy().

I'll have a look, but issuing a deprecation warning when linking against 
-levent sounds reasonable.

--
Ross Lagerwall
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