Re: emacs dumps core using gnus

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:37:56 -0700 (MST)
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> 
>     > Can it be done by seeing which files are present in the directories
>     > that would be searched?
> 
>     Sorry, I'm not following: what files did you have in mind?
> 
> The shared library files.  They have the version numbers in the file name.

That doesn't seem to be reliable enough: the library produced from
version 4.1.0b1, the one where the bug is fixed, libungif.so.4.1.0,
the same as with version 4.1.0, where the bug is present.

And then there's the case of static libraries, which don't have the
version numbers in their names.