From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 08:12:06 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA19873 for current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:12:06 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA19867 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:12:04 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA12354; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:11:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:11:07 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503281611.AA12354@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Paul Richards Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), phk@ref.tfs.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: shared library versioning In-Reply-To: <199503281027.LAA17860@isl.cf.ac.uk> References: <9503272218.AA11072@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199503281027.LAA17860@isl.cf.ac.uk> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Yeah, I agree with this. During the release cycle we can handle any > library problems ourselves by recompiling what we need to. > We maybe should have some mechanism for tracking this so that we know when > changing the libraries that someone has already bumped the numbers since the > last release. Well, all that's really needed is a file (I propose /usr/share/misc/shlib-numbers) which lists the shared-libraries and minor numbers used in each release. I will do this today if somebody doesn't beat me to it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant