Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:02:21 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Library version number bumps Message-ID: <415C664D.7050301@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040930174100.GA1090@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040929030546.GE16305@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <p0611040dbd81ef321609@[128.113.24.47]> <20040930174100.GA1090@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >>At 11:05 PM -0400 9/28/04, Ken Smith wrote: >> >>>>From the "Better late than never" Department... >>> >>>It looks like we should probably bump the version of a couple of >>>the system libraries. With LOTS of help from Kris it looks like >>>this is the list we think needs a version bump, with the version >> >>>from 4.X being placed in compat4x: >> >>> libgnuregex.so.2 >>> libhistory.so.4 >>> libm.so.2 >>> libncurses.so.5 >>> libopie.so.2 >>> libpcap.so.2 >>> libreadline.so.4 >>> libwrap.so.3 >>> >>>The bumps will be coming soon... >> >>Does this include bumping the version number on C++ related >>libraries, as requested in the message on "5.3, libstc++, gcc34" >>on Sept 15th? > > > 5.x has already had lots of incompatible changes requiring you to > recompile older binaries, and the above is going to be another one > (that's the price of fixing compat with 4.x). > > Kris To answer it a different way, 'no'. libstdc++ was already bumped for 5.x, so there are no 4.x->5.x shlib number problems there. Scott
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