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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:19:50 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, thierry@herbelot.com
Subject:   Re: No libc shared lib number bump ?
Message-ID:  <20071018091950.GB1546@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <47170A83.6050607@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200710180835.18929.thierry@herbelot.com> <47170A83.6050607@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:25:55AM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Thierry Herbelot wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I just saw on my -current box that some/most/all shared libraries seem not 
>> to have been bumped when REL_7 was branched :
>> % ll /lib/libc.so*
>> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1036012 Oct 15 23:33 /lib/libc.so.7
>> % uname -a
>> FreeBSD YYY 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #1919: Wed Oct 17 20:39:59 
>> CEST 2007     XXX@YYY:/tank/files3/obj/tank/files1/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> This is deliberate, there is no longer any need now or in the future (since 
> symbol versioning now exists).

I don't understand this thing well, since it is new. Is there some 
howto's in symbol versioning exists for most common cases like that:
a) some new function/variable/struct added
b) some existen function/variable/struct changed
(at this moment I am interesting especially in a) case since did it for 
ctype)

-- 
http://ache.pp.ru/



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