Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:02:57 +1200 From: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> To: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> Cc: freebsd@xaa.iae.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF ldconfig Message-ID: <19980920170257.B9422@clear.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <98Sep20.000104edt.37911-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu>; from David Holland on Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 12:00:55AM -0400 References: <19980920133401.B9101@clear.co.nz> <98Sep20.000104edt.37911-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu>
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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 <jabley@clear.co.nz> 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
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