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Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: libpthread.so.2 compatibility
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John Hay wrote:
>> Both libpthread.so.2 and libc.so.6 (and .so.7) have to be
>> in sync (built from same-dated sources).
>>     
>
> Ok, hopefully this is just a temporary thing until somebody can work
> up the courage to bump libpthread.so.2. It is pretty silly to have
> two files with the same name but different contents. Even the
> compat libs cannot help with that.
>   

It would therefore make a lot of sense to simultaneously bump libraries 
with ABI dependancies, until this becomes a non-issue.