On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 09:57:21AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> The problem is that I forgot to do that when the 4.7 branch was >> created. So the 4.7 branch and the 4.6 branch were using the same >> SONAME although they had completely different ABIs. >> >> That is, there is no ABI change on the 4.7 branch. I'm setting the >> SONAME to distinguish it from the 4.6 branch. >> >> I agree is not ideal but it seems like the best approach under the >> circumstances. > > I think it is too late for such a change on the 4.7 branch, better > just say that the go support in 4.6 is experimental, without stable ABI, > otherwise there will be ABI incompatibility also on the 4.7 branch > between patchlevel versions thereof.
OK, I reverted the patch on the 4.7 branch. Ian
