On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 16:24:10 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > I guess this is where the "OS X" paradigm and the GNU paradigm just > break down. Is there actually annotation done to specify that a > specific function was added for a given minor version bump of a > library? Does the loader just require that the runtime version be >= > the linktime version (that seems particularly dangerous to me)? How > is this actually enforced in practice? My understanding was that the > minor version was nothing more than extra bits as a guide to the user > or packager and that there wasn't actually any "real" mechanism in > place to deal with this properly (ie weak linking the new symbols). > It's usually enforced by package dependencies, not by ld.so itself.
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