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Re: gcc 3.2 transition in unstable



On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 07:43, Chris Cheney wrote:

> > In the gcc-3.2 transition the main problem to not change sonames is to
> > keep compatibility with other distributions that are not changing
> > sonames in their gcc-3.2 transition.
> 
> imho the concept of sonames is broken... Any number of things can cause
> you to need to bump the soname technically, compile with a different
> version of a library, a different version of compiler, etc.

The soname stuff is not broken. People just want it do things it was not
intended for. soname purely reflects the API, there should be other
means of distinguishing the ABI (If I understand the gcc development
correctly, that's tha main problem they're trying to figure out in
current development. Versioned symbols are not the thing, though, afaics
they, too, are only related to the ABI).

cheers
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