From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 13:52:23 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 5CADD16A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:52:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0319543D2F for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:52:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i8TDqHbC017227 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:52:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id i8TDqHs2017226 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:52:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:52:17 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040929135217.GA16594@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20040929030546.GE16305@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20040929092710.GA59303@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20040929123100.GA600@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="envbJBWh7q8WU6mo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040929123100.GA600@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Library version number bumps 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: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:52:23 -0000 --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: > > >=20 > > > >From the "Better late than never" Department... > > >=20 > > > 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: > > >=20 > > > libgnuregex.so.2 > > > libhistory.so.4 > > > libm.so.2 > > > libncurses.so.5 =2E...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. > >=20 >=20 > They need to be bumped because the internal workings of the libraries that doesn't answer the question (libncurses hasn't changed its interface f= or some time - unless you're stating that the dynamic linker's changed incompatibly in some fashion). --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo--