[2296] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: shared library versioning thoughts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Sun Mar 9 15:42:23 1997
To: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 09 Mar 1997 15:40:29 -0500
In-Reply-To: Tom Yu's message of Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:10:36 -0500
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU> writes:
Tom> The shared library system currently in the 1.0 does not allow for
Tom> compatibility between major versions of shared libraries that are
Tom> different minor versions, at least not on all platforms. Do we want
Tom> to fix this in a later release or not?
Tom> Performing this fix would involve explicitly setting the SONAME field
Tom> in some architectures and making a bunch of symlinks, e.g. for a
Tom> GNU-ld based ELF system:
I think we should certainly set soname, although I am
unconvinced we should create the symlinks on systems that
support ldconfig.
--Sam
