--enable-oldest-abi is badly broken.

[H. J. Lu]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:06:21PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Not exactly. At least, it was not what I had in mind when I introduced it.
> 
> That is how it has always worked as long as it has actually worked at all.
> That is, oldest-abi is equivalent to having a third column in shlib-versions.
> The SHLIB_COMPAT macro magic would need to change to implement what you want.

It has to be fixed. As I said, the intention of --enable-oldest-abi
is to limit the binary compatibility to a specific ABI and above.


H.J.