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Re: shlib-compat.h

To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
Subject: Re: shlib-compat.h
From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
Date: 21 Mar 2000 22:43:15 +0100
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <200003190713.CAA31293@frob.com>

>>>>> Roland McGrath writes:

 > I have implemented some changes to better manage symbol version sets and
 > old-versioned ABI compatibility code.  The intent of these changes is that
 > when a port to a new platform is done or a library's soname gets changed,
 > libraries built for the new platform/soname not pay the overhead to support
 > obsolete symbol versions that were never supported before by that soname on
 > that platform.

 > I control this with a new (optional) parameter in shlib-versions that gives
 > the earliest symbol version set that needs to be supported.  This has two
 > effects: 

Hi Roland,

I didn't look closely at your patches yet - the description sounds
excellent.  Ralf and I discussed one enhancement which we could
use for MIPS/Linux:  Ignore a version in between.  MIPS/Linux uses
currently glibc 2.0.7 - and the next supported version should be (I
hope) glibc 2.2.  glibc 2.1 might not be supported at all.

Is this possible to add?

Thanks,
Andreas
-- 
 Andreas Jaeger
  SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
   private aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de

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