From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 17:53: 5 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 CE8B137B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1D1r1H09378 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:53:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:52:55 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" 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> Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010212173410.O3038@dragon.nuxi.com> <200102130144.f1D1irU56669@mobile.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102130144.f1D1irU56669@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:44:53PM -0800 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 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. -- -- 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