No libc shared lib number bump ?

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 18 07:23:57 PDT 2007


On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> 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).

Even so, we never bumped until there was an ABI change!

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DE


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