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Re: --as-needed by default

From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Cc: Mike Hearn <mike at navi dot cx>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:46:19 -0800
Subject: Re: --as-needed by default
References: <pan.2005.03.03.14.30.11.178270@navi.cx><20050303224413.GI376@bubble.modra.org><87y8d4e1ru.fsf@codesourcery.com><or4qfmkqmd.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br><87oeduja6z.fsf@codesourcery.com><or8y4xkbm7.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br><87d5u9itw9.fsf@codesourcery.com><orfyz5idk9.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mar  8, 2005, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> People instead bite the bullet and increment libfoo's soname.
>
> Yuck.  I'd hope not.  Breaking binary compatibility shouldn't be done
> lightly.

Um, prescriptivism is all very well, but I am telling you what people
actually do, from my recollecton of times when this sort of thing has
happened to libraries packaged by Debian (so I see the upgrade notice
go by, and I see the soname get bumped).

zw

References:
- --as-needed by default
  - From: Mike Hearn
- Re: --as-needed by default
  - From: Alan Modra
- Re: --as-needed by default
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: --as-needed by default
  - From: Alexandre Oliva
- Re: --as-needed by default
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: --as-needed by default
  - From: Alexandre Oliva
- Re: --as-needed by default
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: --as-needed by default
  - From: Alexandre Oliva

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