Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:32:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Announcing Binary Compatibility/Testing |
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Robert Love wrote: > > Any other incompatibility lies in libraries, but we have library > versioning.
No we don't.
Yes, we "have the technology". But it's not actually used for libc (which is most of the problematic stuff), so we do not actually have library versioning.
Instead, glibc tries very hard to be binary compatible, and invariably fails occasionally.
Oh, well.
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