Homebrew/homebrew — pull request #28373 by jacknagel (2014-04-13 17:29:53+00:00)
Title: readline 6.3.3

Rather than bumping revisions on everything that uses readline, I've created symlinks for the 6.2 libs pointing at the 6.3 libs.

The release notes for 6.3 say:

>When creating shared libraries on Mac OS X, the pathname written into the
library (install_name) no longer includes the minor version number.

so apparently this was an oversight in previous versions.

MacPorts has apparently been doing this for a long time so it should be safe. We can remove the symlinks at 6.4, by then most things will have been recompiled against the newer libs.