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Date:      Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:44:25 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
To:        David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/msun/i387 fenv.c fenv.h
Message-ID:  <423A86D9.5030504@portaone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050318064521.GA42508@VARK.MIT.EDU>
References:  <20050318055212.GA70385@FreeBSD.org> <20050318061647.GA40922@VARK.MIT.EDU> <423A7277.1000202@samsco.org> <20050317.233645.74714466.imp@bsdimp.com> <20050318064521.GA42508@VARK.MIT.EDU>

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David Schultz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
>>>You had better bump the version number for libm before 6.0 rolls
>>>around!!  I've just found a 3rd party binary-only package that
>>>supports 'FreeBSD 5.x' but is linked against libm.so.2.  Ugh.  We
>>>need to bury that mistake and NOT make it again.
>>
>>6.0 already has /lib/libm.so.3
> 
> 
> So does 5.3.  I think Scott's point is that if we're going to bump
> it for 6.X at all, we had better do it soon or risk running into
> the same mess we had before.  I agree with that, although at
> present I don't know of a compelling reason to do the bump the
> libm version number at all.

Haven't several functions been removed from -CURRENT version of libm 
recently? IMHO this provides sufficient reason for version bump. 
Actually I think it makes sense to bump all libraries automatically when 
-CURRENT goes one major number up. There is just no much sense in 
preserving partial compatibility.

-Maxim



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