symbol version for newly added functions in libc

Hajimu UMEMOTO ume at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 11 11:35:15 UTC 2014


Hi,

>>>>> On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:32:44 +0200
>>>>> Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack.nl> said:

jilles> The symbol version used for the new functions in the stable branches
jilles> should be the same as in -current. This ensures that an executable built
jilles> on a stable branch will work on -current.

jilles> It is currently an accepted side effect that symbol versioning will
jilles> usually accept an executable from a newer version of FreeBSD, only
jilles> failing if and when an unimplemented symbol is needed.

Okay, Thank you for clarification.

Sincerely,

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Hajimu UMEMOTO
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