From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 28 18:27:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC13C16A41C; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:27:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1AC43D4C; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:27:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5SIR1kS092583; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j5SIR1Pd092582; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:27:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alfred Perlstein Message-ID: <20050628182701.GA92486@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20050628154627.GJ40423@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050628154627.GJ40423@elvis.mu.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: kan@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libstdc++ version bump. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:27:02 -0000 On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:46:27AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I just got bitten by an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.4 where my apps > linked with c++ stopped working. The solution I had to do was to > copy an old 5.2.1 libstdc++ over my 5.4 one. My question is, why > wasn't the library version bumped for this incompatible change? Because 5.2.1 was 5-CURRENT. Not until 5.3 did we make any ABI stability cares or guarantees. It was a conscientious decision the release management team made. I'm sure one could have built a 5.2.1 kernel module (.ko) that is broken on 5.3-RELEASE and 5-STABLE. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)