[haiku-development] Re: [PATCH] libroot improvements
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:43:52 +0100
On 2009-03-10 at 20:36:20 [+0100], Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering, does anyone see problems with switching to a new libroot
> > while still shipping a compatibility libroot? After all the only reason
> > for
> > using the current glibc mishmash is for binary compatibility with BeOS.
> >
>
> Are you suggesting keeping old libroot around for bin compat and
> having a new lib with a different name going forward? If so, I'd be
> all for that myself.
Not even a new name. I would simply stash the compatibility libroot somewhere
out of the way and let the runtime loader load it when necessary.
I guess we should add some tag to our glue code, so that the runtime loader
can easily find out which Haiku version a shared object was built with. If
we're planning for long-time compatibility something like this will be needed
anyway.
CU, Ingo
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