Re: binary incompatible libc.so change breaks Sun Java

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 09:30, H . J . Lu wrote:

> We should provide the run-time definition. But we shouldn't provide the
> link-time definition. I think it should apply to those private symbols
> somehow used by other binaries. We can always remove them with
> --enable-oldest-abi=2.3.

No.  And stop arguing in favor of these broken programs.  All programs
which use internal symbols are broken.  They must be rooted out as soon
as possible.  Internal interfaces do not only go away (as in this case)
they also change (semantically).  This is the whole point behind
defining them *private*.

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