Re: Xen 4.2 / Xen 4.3 ABI compatibility

[Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>]

Ian,

--On 18 May 2013 11:57:16 +0100 Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> 
wrote:

> Where the ABI has changed between 4.2 and 4.3 the SONAMEs should also
> have been bumped. The last missing bumps should have been caught by:
>         commit dac66a5b2db37a40c7eb4b9d25ee8095106906c0
>         Author: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
>         Date:   Tue May 7 11:39:10 2013 +0100
>
>             tools: Bump some library sonames
>
> Please let us know if we missed one.
>
> We don't (usually) bump the SONAME more than once during a dev cycle so
> if the ABI changed more than one things built against intermediate
> versions may not work and would need rebuilding.
>
> If you haven't recompiled then you may also be picking up the 4.2
> SONAMEs (i.e. the 4.2 versions of the libraries), which wouldn't be
> expected to work with 4.3.

Some good news for once - I can confirm our app compiles without a single
warning against 4.3-rc2. We'll try some unit tests next week.

-- 
Alex Bligh