From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 16 14:13:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6232537B4C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:13:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA73341 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:13:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:13:19 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libc shlib version Message-ID: <20001116141319.A73305@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <47225.974328301@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <47225.974328301@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:45:01PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > If we haven't changed any interfaces in -stable since 4.1 then we don't > need to bump anything. If we have, we do, that's just how shared > library versions work. Correct. However people need to be careful and realize that means addition of interfaces (as long as existing ones do not change) does not require a shared version number bump. This was not the case in the a.out world, and some may not realize the rules have changed. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message