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Subject: Re: Shared library version bump?
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On Mon, 8 May 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0605081700490.11616@sea.ntplx.net>
>            Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
> : On Mon, 8 May 2006, Scott Long wrote:
> :
> : > Daniel Eischen wrote:
> : >> In preparation for release of 7.0, can we please have
> : >> a shared library version bump?  I'd like to enable
> : >> symbol versioning by default.
> : >>
> : >
> : > Sorry, this has been a low priority in my brain due to 6.1.
> :
> : No problem.  I intentionally waited until 6.1 was just about
> : done before pinging you again.
> :
> : > Yes, we do want this.  You should send out appropriate HEADS UP
> : > emails before and after it happens so that everyone is prepared.
> : > Did you want to be in charge of all of this, or did you have
> : > someone else in mind?
> :
> : I've not done this before.  Is it just a matter of bumping
> : SHLIB_MAJOR in lib/Makefile.inc and lib/*/Makefile?
>
> Hopefully this will be the last major bump for a long time...
> Otherwise, why bother with symbol versioning at all...

For libraries with symbol versioning, yes, that's the plan.
To date, that's libc, libm, libthr, libpthread, and libthread_db.
If other libraries become symbol versioned after 7.0 gets
released, then those libraries will need another version
bump.

-- 
DE