On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 07:11:52PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote: > > This is an another problem that would be easily and compatibly solved by > > my ELF extension (until the library gets properly fixed upstream). > Yes and no. Versioned symbols are here NOW and can be used NOW, and they fix > the issue cleanly without drawbacks: they are as painful as a > do-it-only-once global soname increase (which is quite painful though).
If "versioned symbols" means including the versions of the dependencies in the SONAME, the biggest drawback I see is that it using it will render all libraries binary-incompatible with programs / libraries developed elsewhere... or have I missed something? In the sense of "being a widely-adopted standard", versioned symbols are *not* here now. Panu