From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 19 22:03:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23751 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 22:03:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fep2-orange.clear.net.nz (fep2-orange.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23727 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 22:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabley@buddha.clear.net.nz) Received: from buddha.clear.net.nz (buddha.clear.net.nz [192.168.24.106]) by fep2-orange.clear.net.nz (1.5/1.9) with ESMTP id RAA02869; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:02:58 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from jabley@localhost) by buddha.clear.net.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA09442; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:02:57 +1200 (NZST) Message-ID: <19980920170257.B9422@clear.co.nz> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:02:57 +1200 From: Joe Abley To: David Holland Cc: freebsd@xaa.iae.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF ldconfig References: <19980920133401.B9101@clear.co.nz> <98Sep20.000104edt.37911-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <98Sep20.000104edt.37911-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu>; from David Holland on Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 12:00:55AM -0400 X-Files: the Truth is Out There Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 12:00:55AM -0400, David Holland wrote: > > That was my concern. Surely there must come a time when two versions of > > a shared library exist (with identical major version numbers), and an > > application requires to be dynamically linked to the older of the two > > because of some incompatibility with the newer library? > > Standard ELF doesn't allow this, or support minor version numbers. > > Even worse things happen when you have two builds of (say) > libslang.so.1 that were compiled against different libcs and are thus > not interchangeable... So remind me why ELF is a good idea? :) -- Joe Abley Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message