Re: [patch] [java] bump libgcj soname

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 04:16:18PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 04/21/2015 04:11 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 04:07:13PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >> bump the libgcj soname on the trunk, as done for every release cycle,
> > 
> > Is that really needed though these days?
> > Weren't there basically zero changes to libjava (both libjava and
> > libjava/classpath) in the last 2 or more years?
> > The few ones were mostly updating Copyright notices, minor configure
> > changes, but I really haven't seen anything ABI changing for quite a while.
> 
> yes, the GCC version is embedded in the GCJ_VERSIONED_LIBDIR
> 
> which is defined as
> 
> gcjsubdir=gcj-$gcjversion-$libgcj_soversion
> dbexecdir='$(toolexeclibdir)/'$gcjsubdir

But why is that an argument for bumping it?  If both GCC 5 and GCC 6 will
(likely) provide the same ABI in the library, there is no reason not to use
the same directory for those.

	Jakub