Re: Versioned Symbols
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:47:40AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Agreed. As far as "programs build on Debian systems won't run elsewhere",
> > it is just a matter of pushing the versioning of said core libraries to the
> > LSB, which shouldn't be too difficult if we do it right and send in patches.
>
> Uh, no, the LSB doesn't standardise every library that is shipped by every
> distribution other than Debian.
It doesn't need to, either. Whatever isn't in the LSB doesn't matter as far
as interoperatibility is concerned [if the LSB is done right]. And it is
NOT like the programs fail to run. You get annoying warnings (that could
even be removed from ld.so, for that matter).
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
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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