On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Julian Elischer wrote: > 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. No, you can handle that with symbol versioning too. -- DEReceived on Mon Aug 14 2006 - 09:18:27 UTC
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