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Re: Symbol versioning question
- To: roland@frob.com (Roland McGrath)
- Subject: Re: Symbol versioning question
- From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 16:40:44 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de, dunham@cse.msu.edu, libc-alpha@cygnus.com
>
> I don't think it is proper to require that other sources be recompiled
> between 2.0 and 2.1; that is part of binary compatibility.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No one said anything about between 2.0 and 2.1. We were talking about
between snapshots of 2.1. In fact, the change I made to glibc 2.1 in
question is to make sure we don't require other sources be recompiled
between 2.0 and 2.1.
Well, "gcc -static" is a different story.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)