Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:52:17 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Library version number bumps Message-ID: <20040929135217.GA16594@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20040929123100.GA600@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20040929030546.GE16305@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20040929092710.GA59303@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20040929123100.GA600@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:31:00AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:27:10PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:05:46PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > > > > > >From the "Better late than never" Department... > > > > > > It looks like we should probably bump the version of a couple of > > > the system libraries. With LOTS of help from Kris it looks like > > > this is the list we think needs a version bump, with the version > > > from 4.X being placed in compat4x: > > > > > > libgnuregex.so.2 > > > libhistory.so.4 > > > libm.so.2 > > > libncurses.so.5 ....hmmm > > Why do they need to be bumped? Why use the version from 4.x? It sounds like > > this will break a lot of 5.x binaries. > > > > They need to be bumped because the internal workings of the libraries that doesn't answer the question (libncurses hasn't changed its interface for some time - unless you're stating that the dynamic linker's changed incompatibly in some fashion). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFBWr4PtIqByHxlDocRApMHAJsEX7CkZCbGduSYVd/io4b0LJS7SACgh9HO Qmg3cnAJNniEpmtgZjmXYdE= =m+57 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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