From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 01:52:55 2003 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 32F8016A4B3; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp5.hy.skanova.net (smtp5.hy.skanova.net [195.67.199.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714FD43F93; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@adminforum.se) Received: from adminforum.se (h230n1fls35o1000.telia.com [217.210.234.230]) h9K8qkM3023830; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:52:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3F93A226.2060104@adminforum.se> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:51:50 +0200 From: John Angelmo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: sv, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl References: <3F92E129.10307@veidit.net> <20031019204629.GC49466@rot13.obsecurity.org> <3F92FC99.8010802@freebsd.org> <20031019221341.GA32851@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20031019224858.GA64932@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031019232403.GA33279@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20031019232403.GA33279@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: re@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: __fpclassifyd problem 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: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:52:55 -0000 Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:48:58PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:13:41PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: >> >> >>>I sent in an email *along time ago* about this type >>>of problem. See the fallout due to revision 1.24 >>>of lib/libc/stdio/findfp.c. IMHO, all shared libraries >>>versions should have been bumped in going from 4.x to >>>5.0. >> >>You don't want to do it before you have to, because this creates more >>pain for people when you make a change that breaks backwards compat >>(given the policy/preference of only bumping once per major release). >> >>I'm working on a script that will detect the kind of backwards >>compatibility breakage we're seeing here by comparing the symbols in >>4.x and 5.x versions of libraries with the same major revision. We >>can then run this once a day/week/whatever somewhere to catch these >>problems as soon as they occur in future. >> > > > You and I participated in the first go around in the > library versioning problem. For one of my attempts > to discuss this problem, see > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1981830+1986079+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-current/20021103.freebsd-current > Are there any hints how to solve my problem, I'm willing to give it a shot ;)