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Re: Symbol versioning question


On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 06:58:21PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 06:51:23PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I don't think it is proper to require that other sources be recompiled
> > between 2.0 and 2.1; that is part of binary compatibility.
> 
> I thought I understood this problem to be one between two
> versions of 2.1.
> 

But as I understand it it will happen on a 2.0->2.1 upgrade anyway.

It will require that, to compile new programs, every library be linked
against 2.1.  It doesn't harm actual binary compatibility, just
compile-time binary compatibility, as it were.  I still don't see why
this has to be the case.

Dan

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