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Re: libgcj soname change needed
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 04 Apr 2006 11:42:44 -0600
- Subject: Re: libgcj soname change needed
- References: <17457.37949.960620.244370@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <443297FE.6000402@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay@redhat.com> writes:
Bryce> Changing the soname would mean that code compiled against GCC 4.1 will
Bryce> no longer run against a trunk runtime. For example, it is possible to
Bryce> take an Eclipse binary compiled with the BC-ABI against libgcj 4.1and
Bryce> run it against the trunk libgcj. If the soname were to change, this
Bryce> would no longer work.
Yeah, I thought we delayed bumping the soname so that we could more
easily test installed (BC-compiled) programs against svn head.
This is kind of lame, but also handy.
Tom