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Date:      Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:18:58 -0800
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.org>, julian@elischer.org
Subject:   Re: libpthread shared library version number
Message-ID:  <4549A9F2.4070000@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611020042290.10499@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <454936CA.6060308@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611011935540.9245@sea.ntplx.net> <45494692.5090200@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0611020042290.10499@sea.ntplx.net>

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Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>>>
>>>> Guys,
>>>>
>>>> I have noticed that libpthread shared library version number in 
>>>> 6-STABLE
>>>> and 7-CURRENT is the same (.2), which causes all threaded application
>>>> compiled for 6-STABLE to segfault when executed on 7-CURRENT system,
>>>> unless libpthread.so.2 is replaced with with its 6-STABLE version which
>>>> in turn will create problems with threaded apps compiled for 7-CURRENT.
>>>> IMHO we should increase version number in 7-CURRENT, so that it is 
>>>> in the line of what we have for other system libraries.
>>>
>>> It should be done as part of a larger set of library version bumps.
>>> All libraries should be bumped.  I believe kan and kensmith were
>>> suppose to be looking at that.  We wanted to enable symble versioning
>>> by default, so all libraries would need to be bumped.
>>
>> Well, as I said the rest of the libs have already been bumped between 
>> 6.x and 7.x, I don't know if libpthread is exception. Perhaps somebody 
>> just missed it out?
> 
> When did this happen?  Did I miss it?  I know we bumped libc.

OK, you are right, only libc and several others have been bumped so far. 
But the point stays - libpthread is not compatible between 7-CURRENT and 
6-STABLE (both forward and backward), so that it should be bumped in 
-CURRENT ASAP.

-Maxim



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