On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:05:40PM -0700, LI Xin wrote: > Well, I think the problem is not exposing a new symbol by itself, but > __mb_sb_limit is being used in _ctype.h, in a form of __inline > functions. Therefore, the change will break new binaries running on > older systems.
Yes. Only vice versa compatibility supported. > Personally I think this is acceptable, I too. > but maybe we > could have a better way to avoid this, because the binaries are no > longer backward compatible Suggest your way. > (i.e. you may have trouble running a program > compiled for 6.3-RELEASE on 6.2-RELEASE, if it uses locale bits). > As a workaround as discussed with rafan@ we have installed a workaround > for now, which installs libc.so.6 before all other shared objects, which > will make the problem invisible. Please note that commiting this stuff to 6x and 7x was not mine but rafan@ idea, I just OK that. Please then address all 6x and 7x ideas to rafan@ -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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