packaging and binary incompatibility coming from the compiler
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Tue Apr 17 09:45:27 UTC 2007
Patrice Dumas writes:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:28:48AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Patrice Dumas writes:
> >
> > This is exhausting. Please explain why the soname scheme does not
> > work for changes in the compiler as well as for changes in the
> > library!
>
> Maybe it does, but is it that way that such issues should be handled
> in fedora? changing soname upon a compiler-related ABI breaking leads
> to following another soname versionning scheme than upstream, I doubt
> this is right, and I don't think such issues are handled that way in
> fedora.
Maybe I'm having difficulty understanding you. Is the problem that a
Red Hat compiler version is binary incompatible with the upstream
compiler? And we have not handled library versioning correctly?
Andrew.
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