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On Saturday 24 May 2003 10:29, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Saturday 24 May 2003 08:41, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> > I replied that I'd like this fixed, and Paul replied and said that he'd |
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> > get on it. It doesn't appear that this effort has been completed as the |
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> > current db in portage still uses non-versioned symbols. We should get |
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> > this done before the 1.4 release so that new users don't have to worry |
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> > about recompiling all their db-based apps. |
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> > |
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> > I just talked to Seemant on irc. He's going to get the right people |
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> > working on this so that we get some kind of good solution in place asap. |
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> > Thanks in advance to anyone who helps out in this effort. |
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> |
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> Oops, I found that I forgot to commit the corrected versions. |
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> Committing them now. Note that only db4 versions will have versioned |
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> symbols, as versioning db3 will create the same breakage as versioning db4 |
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> will. |
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As a note to all people actually using db4. Compiling this new version WILL |
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force you to recompile all db4/db dependent applications. As db4 is masked |
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there is no clean upgrade path as yet. |
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To clarify the db3 breakage if it where versioned. Basically versioned symbols |
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will give all db functions a name with a version in it. As this is hidden by |
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db.h applications don't notice it, but the dynamic linker will and it will |
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find unresolved symbols. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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