--as-needed by default

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Wed Mar 9 05:46:00 GMT 2005


Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mar  8, 2005, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> People instead bite the bullet and increment libfoo's soname.
>
> Yuck.  I'd hope not.  Breaking binary compatibility shouldn't be done
> lightly.

Um, prescriptivism is all very well, but I am telling you what people
actually do, from my recollecton of times when this sort of thing has
happened to libraries packaged by Debian (so I see the upgrade notice
go by, and I see the soname get bumped).

zw



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