Symbol versioning

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just checked in support for symbol versioning to v3-2-stable
> to see how the build farm likes it.
> 
> For now I only added it for libtalloc, libtdb and libwbclient,
> the aim of this is to extent the api later without breaking
> already compiled binaries. For details have a look at
> http://people.redhat.com/~drepper/symbol-versioning.

So how does this help us on non-linxu platforms that use the
native ld?  This doesn't seem to help with API version unless it
is portable everywhere.




jerry
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