Symbol versioning question

H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Sun Dec 20 16:44:00 GMT 1998


> 
> 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)



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