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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Subject: Re: Renaming all symbols in libmp(3)
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* Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Why don't you add symbol versioning to libmp, so that old
> binaries will still work, but new ones will get the new
> symbols by default.  Hmm, will that work without bumping
> SHLIB_MAJOR?  You might want to play around with it and
> see.

Well, even without symbol versioning this could be done, by just making
a __strong_reference() between the symbols, but I decided not to do so.
I think solutions like these are perfect when just renaming/removing a
couple of symbols, but because we're basically touching everything, I
thought we'd better just use the old approach.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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