Re: libpthread shared library version number

Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> When did this happen?  Did I miss it?  I know we bumped libc.

OK, you are right, only libc and several others have been bumped so far. 
But the point stays - libpthread is not compatible between 7-CURRENT and 
6-STABLE (both forward and backward), so that it should be bumped in 
-CURRENT ASAP.

-Maxim