FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:01:05 -0600, Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>
wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:35:21PM -0800, Frank M. Kromann wrote:
> 
> Though we've mostly glossed
> over it up to this point, the truth is that we are currently shipping
> two incompatible ABIs -- MS and Sybase -- using the same library soname.
>  So
> someone can take a binary compiled on one machine and install it on a
> machine where freetds was compiled with different options, and it might
> not work: an increasingly serious problem as FreeTDS becomes more mature
> and more widespread.

Good point.  Incompatible binaries should have different names.  I suppose
for each ABI we target, we should have the autotools generate different
sonames.  

--jkl