Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 06:09:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Undefined symbol "___error" Message-ID: <199805141009.GAA00344@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199805140324.NAA22813@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "May 14, 98 01:24:38 pm"
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> Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > does this mean that ALL third party programs that use curses MUST be > > > > recompiled?!?!?! > > > > > > Recompiled, no. Relinked, yes. > > > > Actually, it's a define in a header file, si it's "recompiled". > > No, it's "relinked" so that a program will know to use the later libc. > The problem here is not that the libc major number needs to be bumped, > but *all* other libraries that use errno.h need a major number bump. > Bruce pointed this out. The choices are bump all major numbers when compiling against the new header (the correct but inconvenient solution since the change is semi-hidden) or some hack in ld.so, e.g., ld.so looks for lib__error.so.1.0 for undefined symbols with two leading underscores. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Safety critical systems, Agency approval To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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