Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > Another issue when sigset_t changes is the version numbers of shared > > libraries. Since libc and libc_r have changed on the interface level, they > > need a version bump. > > I suggest to try to avoid the version bump. NetBSD-like way to do it: > Give new implementations another names in object files, so that they > don't conflict with old implementations, and preserve old > implementations in the library too. To make the compiler generate calls > to new implementations, one can add appropriate #define s in .h files. > For GCC, __asm__ attribute also can be used.
That still is an interface change and thus needs a version bump. How else do I know wich version x library has the new implementations (besides the larger one :-)? -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:[email protected] SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:[email protected] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
