BIG PROBLEM: Need help with production box

[Craig Ringer]

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 23:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> You'd need to version symbols in [all instances of] the library for that to
> not blow in your face.  The same goes for libsasl, libldap, and anything
> else different libs would like to link/dlopen to at the same time.

[stupid non-C-programmer question incoming:]

Out of curiosity, why isn't that standard practise - adding/altering
symbol versioning info whenever the soname is incremented? Surely it'd
save a lot of headaches, especially if it could be done automatically at
the compiler/linker level.

Craig Ringer

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