M. Warner Losh wrote: >In message: <20060802172505.GA1935_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> > Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes: >: Almost everything on a FreeBSD system depends on libc. Bumping >: its version number without careful coordination of bumping all >: other version numbers is full of landmines. Falling back of the >: retort "this is -current expect problesm" just glosses over what >: appears to be sloppy planning. > >I'm really hoping that we can stop bumping major versions of libc.so.7 >when we go to versioned symbols. > > From my experienc, versioned symbols allows you to avoid about 50% of library version bumps but you still need them every now and then. There are lots of other ABI changes that need to happen that symbol versionning just can't help you with. For example, changing argument types. >Warner >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > >Received on Mon Aug 14 2006 - 01:11:01 UTC
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