LD Changes To Implicit DSO Linking Update

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Feb 9 18:42:44 UTC 2010


Adam Williamson wrote:
> I disagree with that. Previous changes to the build environment - even
> upstream GCC changes - have broken way more packages (every GCC .x
> release tends to break a lot of things temporarily).

And that's something which really irks me about GCC upstream, they don't 
seem to understand what "backwards compatibility" means. That doesn't mean 
it's a good idea to break code like this.

        Kevin Kofler



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