Re: [rfc] alpha-linux changing to 128-bit long double
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:30:51PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:44:05 +0000,
> James Troup wrote:
> > >> Not to mention it was for all architectures - I have no idea how
> > >> this could be sanely done for a single architecture. Remember you
> > >> have to rename all the library packages...
> > >
> > > This transition is only for alpha.
> >
> > You still can't do a soname transition for libc without changing the
> > name of every library package which means changing the source which
> > means it'll affect all architectures.
>
> Uhm, exactly - I forgot that point. It becomes big transition not
> only alpha.
>
> So after sarge, we have at least 3 big transition: (1) alpha libc6.2
> transition (2) m68k/hppa gcc 3.4 (sjlj -> dwarf2) transition (3)
> biarch support. Our life will be filled with difficulties ;)
Actually, I don't think we need to convert the sonames of anything.
Unlike libdb, for instance, libc.so.6.1 and libc.so.6.2 can in theory
coexist in the same binary. I'm sure something somewhere will get
confused, but the point of symbol versioning is to make this possible.
Now, of course, there's a whole separate problem for any _other_
library whose interface uses long doubles.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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