From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jul 7 18:00:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07376 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:00:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07352; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:00:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA14668; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:30:41 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980708103041.R7792@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:30:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ahmon Dancy , Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/7189 References: <199807070941.CAA20179@freefall.freebsd.org> <199807071442.HAA08567@ultra.franz.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807071442.HAA08567@ultra.franz.com>; from Ahmon Dancy on Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 07:42:46AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 7 July 1998 at 7:42:46 -0700, Ahmon Dancy wrote: >>> Synopsis: ld doesn't look for libxxx.so >>> >>> State-Changed-From-To: open-closed >>> State-Changed-By: phk >>> State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 7 02:40:22 PDT 1998 >>> State-Changed-Why: >>> How would you tell which version of library you expect then ? >>> This clearly seem like a bad idea to me >>> . > > Wait! It works on the other operating systems, though! I agree that > it should use a version number if available.. but, if it doesn't find > a libxxx.so.m.n, it should accept a libxxx.so if it finds one. Agreed. Why is this a bad idea, Poul-Henning? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message