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Re: shlib versions changed on some archs
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:31:31PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> This is something we thought might be an issue when I first made the
> change, but we noticed libpthread et al have minima specified already and
> we overlooked libthread_db. I have changed the generation now so that
> DEFAULT lines will work regardless of the order.
>
> If only libthread_db was actually affected, then I don't think there will
> be any ABI compatibility issue in actual practice. libthread_db is
> normally used only with dlopen/dlsym rather than direct linking, and
> versioned symbol lookups (dlvsym) are not normally used. (Certainly there
> will be no problem with gdb.)
Sun's jdk 1.5.0 for amd64-linux uses direct linking for libthread_db and
contains references to symbols with GLIBC_2.2.5 version.
That's why we have noticed it.
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