From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
"Timothy D. Witham" <wookie@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Announcing Binary Compatibility/Testing
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:32:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410141129200.3897@ppc970.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097709855.5411.20.camel@localhost>
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.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 22:16 Timothy D. Witham
2004-10-13 22:38 ` Timothy D. Witham
2004-10-13 22:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-13 22:55 ` Timothy D. Witham
2004-10-13 23:24 ` Robert Love
2004-10-13 23:36 ` Timothy D. Witham
2004-10-14 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2004-10-14 21:57 ` Diego Calleja
2004-10-15 19:49 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-17 21:44 ` Kurt Garloff
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