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To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
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Subject: Re: ld.so: ivs: libcompat.so.2.0: Undefined error: 0 
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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>> Nate Williams said:
 > 
 > That is why it must be compiled shared.  A *bug* in the loader prior to
 > 2.0.5 allowed it to build shlibs with symbols that had multiple
 > definitions.  So, the symbol which was used depended on it's position in
 > the build at creation time.  In all honesty, this problem still exists
 > with the static libraries as well, but since the loader isn't aware of
 > multiply defined symbols because each .o file is unique it's not seen.
 > 
 > The solution is to remove the dependency of libcompat in whatever
 > program requires libcompat and send the changes back to the maintainer.
 > 

Does mwm depend on libcompat?

	Tnks,
	Amancio