Re: Accepted sdl-image1.2 1.2.2-1 (i386 source)
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Steve Langasek wrote:
> In the case where an application looks for the symbol with no versioning
> information, the symbol will be resolved in the traditional,
> first-come-first-serve order. This is why a smooth transition requires
Which is exactly what we have right now. That's why versioning libraries is
a good thing: it doesn't break anything else. It WILL break the ABI in a
backwards-compatible way: New apps will not work with an unversioned
version of the library. However, old libraries will work just as fine with
the versioned library as the unversioned one.
> that everything be recompiled against the version-using libraries, since
> both libpng2 and libpng3 will still be providing conflicting, unversioned
> copies of the symbols.
And that's why it would be very nice to have libdb2 compiled with versioning
symbols as well.
Actually, I think we should actually get the LSB to propose that ALL
libraries be compiled with symbol versioning [in the future]. Is there any
sort of drawbacks with such a policy?
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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