packaging and binary incompatibility coming from the compiler
Linus Walleij
triad at df.lth.se
Tue Apr 17 08:38:32 UTC 2007
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Sometimes changes in the compiler leads to binary incompatibility. How
> to deal with these kind of incompatibilitites? I don't think that using
> the soname for those kind of incompatibilities is right, are there other
> technniques?
The Fedora technique has been to rebuild all packages when a new compiler
breaking the ABI is introduced. This means new compiler ABIs can only
coincide with new Fedora releases, and it's been working quite well.
Linus
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