From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Bligh Subject: Re: Xen 4.2 / Xen 4.3 ABI compatibility Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 14:20:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: <185B568C5A3BBFC6D24EDF9A@nimrod.local> <519754DE.3030108@citrix.com> <1368874636.12438.16.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> Reply-To: Alex Bligh Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1368874636.12438.16.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: Xen Devel , Alex Bligh , =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ian, --On 18 May 2013 11:57:16 +0100 Ian Campbell 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 > 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