libpthread shared library version number
Maxim Sobolev
sobomax at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 2 01:15:14 UTC 2006
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?
-Maxim
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