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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:25:43 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Renaming all symbols in libmp(3)
Message-ID:  <20090226182543.GY19161@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0902261315150.12228@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <20090226180756.GX19161@hoeg.nl> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0902261315150.12228@sea.ntplx.net>

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* Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Why don't you add symbol versioning to libmp, so that old
> binaries will still work, but new ones will get the new
> symbols by default.  Hmm, will that work without bumping
> SHLIB_MAJOR?  You might want to play around with it and
> see.

Well, even without symbol versioning this could be done, by just making
a __strong_reference() between the symbols, but I decided not to do so.
I think solutions like these are perfect when just renaming/removing a
couple of symbols, but because we're basically touching everything, I
thought we'd better just use the old approach.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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