Re: RFC: Symbol versioning for libc

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to commit what I have to enable wider testing, but
> > turn off symbol versioning by default.  I would also like
> > re_at_ to take a look at the version namespace scheme. ....
>
> Wouldn't it be simpler for the namespace version to match
> the FreeBSD version? E.g. FBSD_7.0 for FreeBSD 7.0, etc.
> FreeBSD_7.1 should inherit from FBSD_7.0, etc.
>
> What you describe almost matches this already (use "7" instead
> of "1").

It is easy to add a weak dependency for a namespace with something
like this:

	FreeBSD-7.4-RELEASE {
	} FBSD_1.2.2;

I would prefer not to tie symbol versions to releases.  There
may be cases where there will not be a 1:1 correspondence
between versions and releases.

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DE