Special symbol version for glibc's internal interfaces

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:09:56PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Have a look at the following RPM output:
> $ rpm -q --requires bash
> /bin/sh  
> ld-linux.so.2  
> libc.so.6  
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)  
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)  
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)  
> libdl.so.2  
> libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)  
> libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1)  
> libhistory.so.4  
> libncurses.so.5  
> libreadline.so.4  

Further more, glibc rpm can be packaged so that it explicitely does not
provide *(GLIBC_PRIVATE) symbol versions. This way if somebody built an rpm
containing stuff against private interfaces, he could not install it
without noticing.

I think GLIBC_PRIV is a good idea.

	Jakub