On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:42:15AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I've had problems in the past going backwards on major versions of
> > shared libaries. The major problem is that if I have binaries that
> > refer to libc.so.503, then when the major number is reverted back to
> > 5, it is a nop because ld will use libc.so.503 for new binaries.
>
> When we back down to 5, we add magic to the Makefiles to move
> libc.so.5?? to /usr/lib/compat - that way they're only used when
> needed at runtime, not for linking new programs.
NO! No magic. No polution. If you are using -current when libc.so.5003
exists, you should be able to handle the `mv' yourself manually.
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-- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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