On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:33:27AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote: > > This is nothing that NetBSD can ensure. A good example is the 64-bit > time_t change in NetBSD 6.0. If you compile a shared library and a > program using this type under NetBSD 5.0 they will use a 32-bit time_t. > If you now recompile *one* of those two under NetBSD 6.0 it will start > using 64-bit time_t-s. And as a result it is no longer compatible with > the NetBSD 5.0 library or program. This will definitely result in crashes.
All the libraries involved _should_ have appropriately renamed symbols for any function taking time_t or different library major version numbers. Thor
