Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

[Daniel Burrows <dnb114@psu.edu>]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:01:29PM +1100, Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org> was heard to say:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:02:12AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > I don't see why this is a problem, you'd only need to change the
> > dlopen() code if there's a SONAME change - and that should only change
> > if there's a binary-incompatible difference.  A difference that might
> > not be picked up by the internal checking of the code.
> 
> It would be picked up.

  So reiserfs has an internal mechanism for reporting whether stuff
is really compatible?  Is it using versioned symbols or something?

  Daniel

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