libpthread shared library version number

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 2 05:43:33 UTC 2006


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.

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DE


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