Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:30:12 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        jabley@clear.co.nz (Joe Abley)
Cc:        freebsd@xaa.iae.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF ldconfig
Message-ID:  <199809200930.CAA13745@usr06.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980920133401.B9101@clear.co.nz> from "Joe Abley" at Sep 20, 98 01:34:01 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> That was my concern. Surely there must come a time when two versions of
> a shared library exist (with identical major version numbers), and an
> application requires to be dynamically linked to the older of the two
> because of some incompatability with the newer library?

Never.

If this ever occurs, you are *required* to bump the major version
number.

Minor version number changes are reserved for (a) bug fixes and (b)
additional interfaces that do not impact existing interfaces.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199809200930.CAA13745>