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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 1995 09:17:08 -0700
From:      nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
To:        Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), davidg@Root.COM, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: shared library versioning
Message-ID:  <199503271617.JAA02055@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199503271335.OAA10199@isl.cf.ac.uk>
References:  <199503271324.XAA19834@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199503271335.OAA10199@isl.cf.ac.uk>

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> > >> ..
> > >> unless you have some other reason to bump the libc major number.
> > >> 
> > 
> > >Jordan's just added new hash code.....
> > 
> > There is no problem for new interfaces, except possibly from namespace
> > pollution.
> 
> 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?

We *should* be bumping the minor number. If no-one gets to it (freefall
appears to be down now), I'll try and get to it.


Nate



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