libpthread shared library version number

[Daniel Eischen]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:09:48AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
>>
>> I agree with the last part, but I think we need to bump sooner rather
>> than later because we need to support binary only applications compiled
>> against 6.x (remember, we're not really supporting anything else so
>> smart vendors are going to build against it).
>>
> Hmm, bumping not versioned libraries *now* and not bumping them
> again at pre-release would work, but doing it without also bumping
> "to be versioned" libraries is IMO pointless.  And if we bump all
> of them now, we'll have to bump some of them again when versioning
> is turned on by default.

Actually, remember that this is -current so we only need to bump
them once.  Symbol versioning could be turned on later, but...

>  I think more important would be to know
> the plans regarding the symbol versioning in 7.0-RELEASE; if the
> plan is to have them versioned, then I think we should sync shlib
> majors bumping with this change.

I agree that we should do this at the same time.

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DE