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Date:      Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:27:01 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        kan@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libstdc++ version bump.
Message-ID:  <20050628182701.GA92486@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050628154627.GJ40423@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <20050628154627.GJ40423@elvis.mu.org>

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:46:27AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> I just got bitten by an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.4 where my apps
> linked with c++ stopped working.  The solution I had to do was to
> copy an old 5.2.1 libstdc++ over my 5.4 one.  My question is, why
> wasn't the library version bumped for this incompatible change?

Because 5.2.1 was 5-CURRENT.  Not until 5.3 did we make any ABI stability
cares or guarantees.  It was a conscientious decision the release
management team made.  I'm sure one could have built a 5.2.1 kernel
module (.ko) that is broken on 5.3-RELEASE and 5-STABLE.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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