This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: Possible ld.so modifications
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Mike Hearn <mike at theoretic dot com>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:20:18 -0800
- Subject: Re: Possible ld.so modifications
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <200212172212.gBHMCGY11511@magilla.sf.frob.com>
Roland McGrath wrote:
> then you can't do anything with symbol versioning that is materially
> better than bumping the soname for every release that might change any ABI
> in the slightest. That is by far the simplest way to ensure that
> compatibility is never broken, it's just quite wasteful of space and of the
> resources to rebuild a lot of
Not even this is unfortunately true unless you can recompile all
binaries. In addition it would be necessary to use different interface
names. So effectively, there is no way around using symbol versioning.
--
--------------. ,-. 444 Castro Street
Ulrich Drepper \ ,-----------------' \ Mountain View, CA 94041 USA
Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `---------------------------