Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 09:54:46 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No libc shared lib number bump ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0711090952001.16340@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <20071109141155.0ae922a1@deskjail> References: <200710180835.18929.thierry@herbelot.com> <47170A83.6050607@FreeBSD.org> <20071018091950.GB1546@nagual.pp.ru> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0710181038360.22190@sea.ntplx.net> <20071109141155.0ae922a1@deskjail>
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> (Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:43:46 -0400 (EDT)): > >> (*) libc and other symbol versioned libraries may be bumped >> again in 8.0 to reset the numbering scheme back to 0 (libc.so.0). >> It was deemed to late in the game to do this for 7.0. > > I'm curious, why do we need to reset it back to .0? We don't have to. It would just make things clearer to have all versioned symbol libraries with the same version number since they shouldn't ever have to be bumped again. Solaris has all their libraries at .1. We've already used .1, but .0 has never been used. obrien suggested it, and it seems to make sense to me. -- DE
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