From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 17:44:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E938937B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:44:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1D1irU56669; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:44:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102130144.f1D1irU56669@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Warner Losh Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) In-Reply-To: <20010212173410.O3038@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:44:53 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" wrote: > Actually going from libc.so.500 to libc.so.{x<500} is easy. > Copy libc.so.500 into /usr/lib/compat. When the libc.so link is made to > libc.so.{x<500}, that is the lib version number that will get burned into > objects. After the first `make world', rm /usr/lib/libc.so.500. There is no need to rm /usr/lib/libc.so.500 - once a new libc is installed, and the symlink points to it, then libc.so.500 will *never* get linked against. Remember, the number in the filename means *nothing*. There is no less than or greater than relationship. We could use 100 digit random numbers for each bump if we liked. We could use dates, current time_t, anything. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message