Writing Shared Libraries, first draft

[Stuart Anderson]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> > Symbol versioning is pushed mostly for the metadata
> > it adds. It lets RPM
> > and the dynamic linker know about minor versions,
> > which is a good thing.
> > I don't know any other way to do that.
>
> is this something specific to rpm only or can dpkg and
> other packaging systems do the same thing?

symbol versions happens in shared libraries, and the executables that
use them. The runtime loader processes them and makes sure everything
gets put together the right way at runtime.

RPM & dpkg really don't have any thing to do with it,and I don't think
they even know about the symbol versions.

                                Stuart

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