Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:48:58PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:13:41PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: >> >> >>>I sent in an email *along time ago* about this type >>>of problem. See the fallout due to revision 1.24 >>>of lib/libc/stdio/findfp.c. IMHO, all shared libraries >>>versions should have been bumped in going from 4.x to >>>5.0. >> >>You don't want to do it before you have to, because this creates more >>pain for people when you make a change that breaks backwards compat >>(given the policy/preference of only bumping once per major release). >> >>I'm working on a script that will detect the kind of backwards >>compatibility breakage we're seeing here by comparing the symbols in >>4.x and 5.x versions of libraries with the same major revision. We >>can then run this once a day/week/whatever somewhere to catch these >>problems as soon as they occur in future. >> > > > You and I participated in the first go around in the > library versioning problem. For one of my attempts > to discuss this problem, see > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1981830+1986079+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-current/20021103.freebsd-current > Are there any hints how to solve my problem, I'm willing to give it a shot ;)Received on Sun Oct 19 2003 - 23:52:55 UTC
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