In message: <44DFE9C0.4010702_at_elischer.org> Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org> writes: : 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. That's the 'trivial' case that symbol versioning is supposed to fix... warnerReceived on Mon Aug 14 2006 - 03:30:55 UTC
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