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Re: OS_VERSION on Linux



Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 02:32:24PM +0000, nia wrote:
>> On NetBSD it should only check the major, at the very least.
>
> There was at least one minor release (7.1 vs. 7.0? someone who
> remembers please correct me) where a shlib major was bumped, so the
> binaries using X libraries were incompatible between the two minor
> releases.

Yes, but that was a bug.   So how about "On NeBSD we should check the
major, and we can add a quirk table if there is a bug with an ABI break
in a major version"?

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