[PATCH] PowerPC64 ELFv2 ABI 6/6: Bump ld.so soname version number

[Steven Munroe]

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 09:42 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > We are very likely going to have a distro release off the 2.18 branch,
> > or at least based on source prior to the FSF 2.19 release.  Correct me
> > if I'm wrong here, but I believe that distro glibc ought to be marked
> > as 2.18.
> 
> That would have an incompatible ABI, so it won't happen.
> 
That is not helpful and completely arbitrary. Is it not incompatible
version as ELF2 is new and independent of previous PowerPC ABIs. 

As the PowerPC64 ELF2 is new we should have some flexibility in
establishing the starting release, as long as we are consistent moving
forward.

Is is a possible compromise in a 2.18.1 or 2.18b version where we could
back port the ELF2 changes only to the 2.18 branch?