On 11.06.2012 00:29, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 22:59 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
Are there likely to be any issues if the transition migrated in
stages - i.e. if the new libffi including libffi6 and the old
libffi5 binary (kept around by britney) co-exist in testing -
and rebuilt binaries migrate as and when they're ready, rather
than needing to have the entire set ready at once?
To partly answer my own question, it looks like neither library
includes versioned symbols, so it could be an issue if both end up
being loaded by the same application.
no, this should be safe. there are no ABI changes for existing
functions. the new version adds functions for variadic support, and
removes some debug functions. from my point of view, these should be
able to coexist.