Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 03:24:30 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@Dataplex.NET> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF transition for ports Message-ID: <l03130300b22523f73c79@[208.2.87.5]> In-Reply-To: <199809160627.XAA03085@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.3.90.980916115700.5131A-100000-100000-100000@mercury> (message from Kris Kennaway on Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:50:34 %2B0930 (CST))
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At 1:27 AM -0500 9/16/98, Satoshi Asami wrote: [Re - Major/Minor Numbering of Shared Libraries] >The minor number is useless, since it is ignored by ELF. > > * It worries me that if there is a rapidly-changing port somewhere which > * likes to bump its' minor version number, that before long we'll find > * ourselves using libfoo.so.28 for libfoo.so.1.27. Is there something I've > * missed about why the above cannot work? Perhaps it would help to think of it from a different perspective. ELF effectively has no MAJOR number. If the major number needs to change, it is a new (different) library. In the ELF world, think of libfoo.1.so.27. I think that most of the readers recognize the reasoning behind the incrementation of the minor number. Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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