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Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:03:12PM -0800, Torvalds; Linus wrote:
>
> Both of these are easy to solve if you just bite the bullet and make
> glibc jump to the next major number together with gcc-3.0 and say that
> gcc exception handling doesn't work with glibc-6, and vice versa.
>
Sorry, Linus, you missed the whole point. Please check out my replies
to Zack's new proposal.
>
> (Personally, I think that glibc should be _forced_ to change it's
> version number every time it comes up with a new release, and only use
> the minor numbers for the _really_ small changes that do not change any
> behaviour or add any new functionality. I'd rather have five copies of
> the libraries than have one library that doesn't really work with all
> binaries).
>
Well, most of ISVs won't like this.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)