From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 20 02:30:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16605 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 02:30:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16600 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 02:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA05346; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 02:30:23 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd005344; Sun Sep 20 02:30:16 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA13745; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 02:30:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809200930.CAA13745@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: ELF ldconfig To: jabley@clear.co.nz (Joe Abley) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:30:12 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd@xaa.iae.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980920133401.B9101@clear.co.nz> from "Joe Abley" at Sep 20, 98 01:34:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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