No libc shared lib number bump ?

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 18 00:25:56 PDT 2007


Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just saw on my -current box that some/most/all shared libraries seem not to 
> have been bumped when REL_7 was branched :
> 
> % ll /lib/libc.so*
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1036012 Oct 15 23:33 /lib/libc.so.7
> % uname -a
> FreeBSD YYY 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #1919: Wed Oct 17 20:39:59 CEST 
> 2007     XXX at YYY:/tank/files3/obj/tank/files1/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

This is deliberate, there is no longer any need now or in the future 
(since symbol versioning now exists).

Kris


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