Re: Re: libofx version number in CVS?

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 22:02, Martin Preuss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 14 August 2005 05:22, ace jones wrote:
> [...]
> > Hey guys, sorry for the n00b question...  Package management is still a
> > little hazy for me.  How do I go about requiring a specific version of
> > libofx?
> [...]
> Do you mean in configure scripts or in RPM packages?

Thanks for the details, Martin.  I guess I meant in configure scripts.  

> In configure scripts I just check for the member "brokerId" in "struct 
> OfxAccountInfo" (because I know that you added it just before the release of 
> 0.8.0, so if that struct contains this member then it must be 0.8.0 or 
> better).

Ok, I do the same thing as you.  I just pick something (in my case a
function call) that I know only exists in the required version.

The 0.8.0 versus 0.7.99 doesn't affect us in the configure scripts
currently, it sounds like.  So it only matters in RPM's?

> However, maybe it would be best if LibOfx provided a means to check for the 
> version of an installed Libofx (either by providing an m4-file, a pkg-config 
> description file or a libofx-config script).

I would vote for pkg-config.  This seems to be the easiest-to-use of the
libraries I've dealt with.

</Ace>




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