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Re: Possible ld.so modifications

From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike at theoretic dot com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:29:35 +0100
Subject: Re: Possible ld.so modifications
References: <1040154647.1223.36.camel@linux.local> <3DFF8908.7000607@redhat.com> <1040158825.1221.59.camel@linux.local>
Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:00:25PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> I don't understand why symbol versioning is the solution here... it'd be
> quite hard to make gtk2 abi compatable with gtk1 for instance, even

Well, if both gtk1 and gtk2 libs use symbol versioning, one marks all
its symbols with @@GTK_1.0 and the other one with @@GTK_2.0, then they can
happily coexist, as long as they have different sonames.

	Jakub

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