Enhanced symbol versioning in 2.7.x

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Thu May 21 11:17:46 CEST 2009


On 2009-05-20 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> with 2.7.x you seem to have started to use a different symbol
> versioning for newly added symbols (since 2.6.x). Well, at least that
> is my understanding. ;-) I am not sure abut the point, is this for
> RedHats automatically versioned library dependencies?

> Anyway, I think this patch should be applied,
> gnutls_x509_crq_set_key is already present in 2.6.6, versioning it
> @GNUTLS_2_8 would break the ABI, afaik.
[...]

On a sidenote gnutls_x509_crq_set_basic_constraints and
gnutls_x509_crq_set_key_usage are new in 2.7.x. If my understanding
were correct they should be versioned @GNUTLS_2_8 instead of
@GNUTLS_1_4.
cu andreas
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