Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:53:00 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: alk@pobox.com Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Libraries Message-ID: <199804141653.KAA13264@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:49:18 CDT." <199804141649.LAA12862@pobox.com> References: <199804141649.LAA12862@pobox.com> <199804141450.IAA26379@prometheus.frii.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414110334.26876G-100000@localhost>
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In message <199804141649.LAA12862@pobox.com> Tony Kimball writes: : I had thought the whole point of the .so.maj.min scheme was that : existing applications could continue to use .so.(N-1).x while newly : compiled applications use .so.N.x. That's true. However, there are problems with that. People "like" to use the maj.min of the software (eg libtcl.so.8.1) when in fact there is no correlation between some software releases' maj/min library number and their relase name. There have been various kludges tried over the years in the FreeBSD tree. Sadly, the maj/min.so.1.0 is the only one that has proven to be viable in the long run. All others are either confusing or broken :-(. It sucks less than the alternatives is what I'm saying. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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