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Re: glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.

To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.
From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
Date: 31 Jul 2000 18:34:14 +0200
Cc: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>, libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <u83dkql3yn.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de><20000731175504.H26939@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz><20000731175831.A14316@suse.de><20000731181215.I26939@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>

>>>>> Jakub Jelinek writes:

Jakub> I don't claim there is no possibility for problems here (what would be bad
Jakub> if a binary incompatible change was done against an already @@GLIBC_2.2
Jakub> symbol), but I hope it will be ok.

Exactly these are the kind of problems - binary incompatible changes
against an @@GLIBC_2.2 symbol or the removal of such a symbol (see my
patch for getipnodebyaddr).

As glibc developers we strike for binary compatibility between
released versions of glibc - but not between alpha releases like
2.1.91 and final releases like 2.2.

Andreas
-- 
 Andreas Jaeger
  SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
   private aj@arthur.inka.de
    http://www.suse.de/~aj

References:
- glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.
  - From: Andreas Jaeger
- Re: glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.
  - From: Jakub Jelinek
- Re: glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.
  - From: Thorsten Kukuk
- Re: glibc 2.1.91 based distributions :-(.
  - From: Jakub Jelinek

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