On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:07:33PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> > The original patch for controlling the export list on Linux included
> > support for symbol versioning. Eventually a version of the export.list
> > control was committed, but without the versioning (it was rejected for
> > some reason, don't remember why).
>
> My recollection is that it didn't work on older Linuxen.
Near as I can tell, glibc has been using symbol versioning for nearly
10 years.
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/NEWS.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25&cvsroot=glibc&f=h
So the chance that there are linux systems out there not supporting it
is fairly slim.
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.