Re: HEADS UP: shared library bump, symbol versioning, libthr change

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
>
>> Not really. You've wrote it several times before and I kept forgetting to 
>> ask
>> you why do you think libraries getting versioned symbols need to be
>> bumped. There might be a valid reason for this, but it somehow escapes me
>> and I would greatly appreciate you helping me to get this straight. I do 
>> not
>> think breaking binaries linking to symbols to which they had no business to 
>> link
>> in the first place is reason good enough. And testing done by Kris did show
>> us that the percentage of such binaries extremely small, small enough to be
>> treated as a noise.
>
> I think it was because I thought libraries and applications that
> are linked without symbol dependencies would always get the
> latest version of the symbol, not the earliest version of
> the symbol.  But if I recall correctly from prior email from
> you, you should get the earliest version of the symbol in
> lieu of no recorded symbol dependency?

libc and the thread libraries need to be bumped for a couple of
reasons.  I believe the internal jump table (see __thr_jtable
in src/lib/libc/include/libc_private.h) changed sizes between
6.x and 7.x.  The other reason is that libpthread and libthr
used the namespace LIBPTHREAD_1_0 as their namespace, and this
needs to be removed and FBSD_1.0 used instead.  libpthread
currently has to play some ugly games in order to be compatible
with both namespaces.  libthr currently doesn't have those
ugly hacks and it would have to add them if its library version
is not bumped.

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DE