Re: libpthread shared library version number

Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>> Guys,
>>
>> I have noticed that libpthread shared library version number in 6-STABLE
>> and 7-CURRENT is the same (.2), which causes all threaded application
>> compiled for 6-STABLE to segfault when executed on 7-CURRENT system,
>> unless libpthread.so.2 is replaced with with its 6-STABLE version which
>> in turn will create problems with threaded apps compiled for 7-CURRENT.
>> IMHO we should increase version number in 7-CURRENT, so that it is in 
>> the line of what we have for other system libraries.
> 
> It should be done as part of a larger set of library version bumps.
> All libraries should be bumped.  I believe kan and kensmith were
> suppose to be looking at that.  We wanted to enable symble versioning
> by default, so all libraries would need to be bumped.

Well, as I said the rest of the libs have already been bumped between 
6.x and 7.x, I don't know if libpthread is exception. Perhaps somebody 
just missed it out?

-Maxim