Possible ld.so modifications
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Tue Dec 17 14:20:00 GMT 2002
Roland McGrath wrote:
> then you can't do anything with symbol versioning that is materially
> better than bumping the soname for every release that might change any ABI
> in the slightest. That is by far the simplest way to ensure that
> compatibility is never broken, it's just quite wasteful of space and of the
> resources to rebuild a lot of
Not even this is unfortunately true unless you can recompile all
binaries. In addition it would be necessary to use different interface
names. So effectively, there is no way around using symbol versioning.
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