Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 20:31:39 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM> To: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) Cc: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/ImageMagick/pkg PLIST Message-ID: <199612091231.UAA10638@spinner.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Dec 1996 01:54:10 PST." <199612090954.BAA00918@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * I noticed that testing display from the WRKSRC doesn't work, because
> * it tried to pick up libMagick.so.3.7.7 which is incompatible with
> * 3.7.8. Running ldconfig or setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately fixed
> * that. I still have older versions of libMagick left over at home and
> * haven't seen a problem yet.
>
> Ok, so they are incompatible. Is that one direction only? (I.e., do
> old binaries work if they are fed libMagick.so.3.7.8?)
>
> Also, you didn't say how it "doesn't work". Does ld.so correctly
> print out a warning ("shlib minor >= 8 expected, only found 7, using
> it anyway" or some such) or does it just bomb on you with a core dump
> or mising function?
>
> If it is the latter, that means the third digit is ignored by
> ldconfig/ld.so.
Yes. The third digit is totally ignored when comparing compatability. It
simply takes the highest "micro" revision available.
Ie: if you link with libfoo.so.3.3.3, it only records 3.3 in the headers,
and will link with anything starting with
libfoo.so.3.(anything >= 3).(highest available).
eg: it would be quite happy with libfoo.3.91.123, and just as happy with
libfoo.so.3.3 or libfoo.so.3.3.0. Note that ld.so will always use the
highest "minor" revision. ie: it'll use libc.so.2.2 in preference to
libc.so.2.0, even if it was initially linked with libc.so.2.0. This is
another thing that our compat dists have got wrong on a most occasions..
installing libc.so.2.0 is a waste of disk space when libc.so.2.2 is
available.
> Satoshi
Cheers,
-Peter
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