On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:13:12PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote:
> At 11:54 AM 2/2/2003, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> >> Ok, I admit, no matter how it happened, an application using the wrong 
> >libc
> >> is a bad thing.
> >>
> >> But, how are things supposed to work?
> >
> >Apps that need the old libc.so.4 will find it in
> >/usr/lib/compat/libc.so.4 (or /usr/lib/libc.so.4 if you didn't remove
> >it, for that matter).
> 
> Well, things were definitely picking /usr/lib/libc.so.4 over anything in 
> compat. Should sysinstall have nuked my /usr/lib/libc if it was putting the 
> correct one in compat?
> 
/usr/src/lib/compat/Makefile.inc takes care of cleaning /usr/lib
when it installs stuff into /usr/lib/compat.  I don't think that
the "binary upgrade" option of sysinstall(8) offers this service.


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