Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:52:55 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) Message-ID: <20010212175255.S3038@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200102130144.f1D1irU56669@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:44:53PM -0800 References: <20010212173410.O3038@dragon.nuxi.com> <200102130144.f1D1irU56669@mobile.wemm.org>
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:44:53PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> "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,
The need is a clean, uncluttered /usr/lib/
> and the symlink points to it, then libc.so.500 will *never* get linked
> against.
Yes, I know. :-) But it is true that I didn't state that to make sure
others did.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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