❦ 16 juin 2015 15:50 +0200, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> : > In any case, barring better documentation or guides, using example > implementations simpler than glibc might be useful to people. So I > offer libbsd, but I'm sure there are many others. We could perhaps > even create a wiki page listing some of those pointers. > > libbsd for example exposes setproctitle() with different versions.
Yes, a simple example is great too and libbsd seems fine for that.
>> How a library should transition from non-versioned symbols (use of
>> -version-info only) to versioned symbols?
>
> You just switch it, code compiled against the new version will require
> at least the version switching to versioned symbols, code compiled
> against an older version will keep working with both.
In libbsd, I see that you started with LIBBSD_0.0. Does this mean libbsd
has always used symbol versioning? Otherwise, the start point would be
to use the previous SONAME (computed from the previous -version-info),
right?
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