From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 27 11:27:43 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA00497 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:27:43 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA00490 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:27:41 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA10078; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:21:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:21:09 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503271621.AA10078@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Paul Richards Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), davidg@Root.COM, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: shared library versioning In-Reply-To: <199503271335.OAA10199@isl.cf.ac.uk> References: <199503271324.XAA19834@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199503271335.OAA10199@isl.cf.ac.uk> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > How do we deal witht the problem of binaries that use the new interface > being run on older systems with the old library? Are we bumping the minor > number, does the linker do anything about this? I didn't see a bump, but as a result of this change, it should be. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant