Applications and bundled libraries

Posted Mar 18, 2010 15:28 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Applications and bundled libraries by NAR
Parent article: Applications and bundled libraries

If a new release of a library alters behaviour in a backwards-incompatible way, then the SONAME
is bumped (that is, going from libevent.so.2 to libevent.so.3 in the example).

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Applications and bundled libraries

Posted Mar 19, 2010 11:30 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, for major changes. For minor ones (like the aforementioned bug workarounds), symbol versioning is a much better choice.

Applications and bundled libraries

Posted Mar 19, 2010 11:36 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

Symbol versioning would not work in this case, I think, because as you recompile $broken_program (which can easily happen in things like rawhide/factory), you are linking it against $new_symbol.