Re: HEADS UP: compat6x

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Doug Barton wrote:

> John Hay wrote:
>> But even in all those other threads, never had there been a decent
>> answer why it is good to have two incompatible libraries with the same
>> number. It can only cause hurt.
>
> No one has said that it won't be changed, only that it won't be
> changed right this minute. It's ok if you don't understand all the
> technical points that were made in the previous threads (I don't
> understand them all either). But what you should realize is that this
> is -current, and sometimes stuff breaks. If you can't deal with that,
> run RELENG_6. Sorry to be so direct about it, but seriously ...

And we're going to enable symbol versioning which also
requires all libraries to have their version bumped
regardless.  Once we have symbol versioning, we will
not have to bump library versions again (at least
in the libraries that are symbol versioned - libc,
libm, libthr, libptthread).

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DE