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Re: libgcj soname change needed
- From: Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>
- To: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:59:58 -0400
- Subject: Re: libgcj soname change needed
- References: <17457.37949.960620.244370@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Matthias Klose wrote:
current trunk needs the soname bump.
Changing the soname would mean that code compiled against GCC 4.1 will
no longer run against a trunk runtime. For example, it is possible to
take an Eclipse binary compiled with the BC-ABI against libgcj 4.1and
run it against the trunk libgcj. If the soname were to change, this
would no longer work.
On the other hand, not updating it means that C++ ABI code can't select
the correct version of the runtime when multiple ones are installed,
which could be a problem for some. Perhaps some linker tricks can be
used to solve this?
Bryce