libgcj soname change needed

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Tue Apr 4 17:49:00 GMT 2006


>>>>> "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



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