From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 17:52: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE7237B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:52:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1D1p9j09361; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:51:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:51:08 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) Message-ID: <20010212175108.R3038@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200102130120.f1D1KpU56194@mobile.wemm.org> <200102130131.f1D1VrW33790@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:42:15AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:42:15AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Warner Losh writes: > > I've had problems in the past going backwards on major versions of > > shared libaries. The major problem is that if I have binaries that > > refer to libc.so.503, then when the major number is reverted back to > > 5, it is a nop because ld will use libc.so.503 for new binaries. > > When we back down to 5, we add magic to the Makefiles to move > libc.so.5?? to /usr/lib/compat - that way they're only used when > needed at runtime, not for linking new programs. NO! No magic. No polution. If you are using -current when libc.so.5003 exists, you should be able to handle the `mv' yourself manually. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message