binary incompatible change in libnss_*.so.2
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Tue Apr 9 13:30:00 GMT 2002
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 13:18, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> Why do we have a major version number for it and increased it in the
> past for binary incopatible changes? Why is this called "libnss*" and
> not "nss*" like Solaris does?
Because of the build process. That's even documented somewhere.
> The reason (you self explained it!) is,
> that in this way it is possible to link against this libraries. Why
> did you change your opinium about this?
Not from the outside. These are clearly internal interfaces.
> Yes, and the result is that you are not able to support NIS+ with it.
OK, then find another way. But don't use internal symbols. Stop
arguing and fix your code.
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