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Re: [patch] [java] bump libgcj soname
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
- Cc: GCJ-patches <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "gcc-patches at gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:19:24 +0200
- Subject: Re: [patch] [java] bump libgcj soname
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- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 04:16:18PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 04/21/2015 04:11 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 04:07:13PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >> bump the libgcj soname on the trunk, as done for every release cycle,
> >
> > Is that really needed though these days?
> > Weren't there basically zero changes to libjava (both libjava and
> > libjava/classpath) in the last 2 or more years?
> > The few ones were mostly updating Copyright notices, minor configure
> > changes, but I really haven't seen anything ABI changing for quite a while.
>
> yes, the GCC version is embedded in the GCJ_VERSIONED_LIBDIR
>
> which is defined as
>
> gcjsubdir=gcj-$gcjversion-$libgcj_soversion
> dbexecdir='$(toolexeclibdir)/'$gcjsubdir
But why is that an argument for bumping it? If both GCC 5 and GCC 6 will
(likely) provide the same ABI in the library, there is no reason not to use
the same directory for those.
Jakub