Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> writes: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:33:27AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote: >> >> This is nothing that NetBSD can ensure. A good example is the 64-bit >> time_t change in NetBSD 6.0. If you compile a shared library and a >> program using this type under NetBSD 5.0 they will use a 32-bit time_t. >> If you now recompile *one* of those two under NetBSD 6.0 it will start >> using 64-bit time_t-s. And as a result it is no longer compatible with >> the NetBSD 5.0 library or program. This will definitely result in crashes. > > All the libraries involved _should_ have appropriately renamed > symbols for any function taking time_t or different library major > version numbers. That may be true for libraries supplied with NetBSD. I would expect that libraries in pkgsrc compiled with NetBSD 5 headers will not play well programs/libraries in pkgsrc compiled with NetBSD 6 headers, because there's no change in soname for those libraries when built in different environments.
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