From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 24 22:10:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18050 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 22:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18004 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 22:09:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA19101; Mon, 25 May 1998 15:16:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199805250516.PAA19101@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning In-Reply-To: <199805250356.UAA08934@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "May 24, 98 08:56:54 pm" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 15:16:08 +1000 (EST) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > Exactly. Several people including myself have gone into ld with the > idea of fixing the above bugs. We all still have nightmares about the > experience. The bugs aren't just bugs, they're major design problems. > That's why everybody who really scrutinizes ld decides it would be a > lot easier to throw it out and switch to ELF. Oh, so _that_ is the reason for switching to ELF. Chuckle. It solves the old ld problems. Just a matter of perspective, I guess. 8-) -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message