From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 11 06:34:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D555616A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:34:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hex.athame.co.uk (guru164.netsonic.fi [194.29.193.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8DD43D1D for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:34:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@athame.co.uk) Received: from hex.int.athame.co.uk ([192.168.1.1] helo=localhost) by hex.athame.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.42 (FreeBSD)) id 1CGtkw-000Jot-JI for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:34:02 +0300 From: Andy Fawcett To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:33:52 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410110933.57011.andy@athame.co.uk> Subject: Library bumps and gcc/g++ versions X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:34:04 -0000 hi, Recently we saw library bumps for various shared libraries because of changes since 4.x Would it make sense to also bump the c++ related libraries when we take a gcc that has an incompatible C++ ABI. Currently I have a couple of commercial closed-source applications that are built against 5.2.1, and won't be rebuilt in the (near) future for 5.3. Bumping the c++ library versions would allow the 5.2.1 libstdc++ library (and related libs) to be included as a compat52x-type library, allowing such applications to continue working. Andy -- Andy Fawcett | andy@athame.co.uk | tap@kde.org "In an open world without walls and fences, | tap@lspace.org we wouldn't need Windows and Gates." -- anon | tap@fruitsalad.org