Symbol versioning question

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Sun Dec 20 23:45:00 GMT 1998


On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 11:17:12PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> It will require that, to compile new programs, every library be linked
> against 2.1.  It doesn't harm actual binary compatibility, just
> compile-time binary compatibility, as it were.  I still don't see why
> this has to be the case.

You compiled against 2.1 headers, for one.  For another, symbol
versioning does its thing at link-time.


r~



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