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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:13:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        pst@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ldconfig ldconfig.c
Message-ID:  <199602262113.NAA04089@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199602260222.SAA12426@freefall.freebsd.org> (message from Paul Traina on Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:22:35 -0800 (PST))

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 *   Bring in some of Paul K's fixes for ldconfig from NetBSD-current.
 *   This solves the problem of being unable to use shared libraries with dots
 *   in their names before the ".so.<version>" code.

Hmm.  So the idea of changing ld so that "ld -lfoo.N" means "major
version N of libfoo" has officially died.  Pity, it would have helped
maintain ports that require different versions of shared libraries.

I'd have opposed this change if it were proposed and discussed, but if 
NetBSD already has it this way, I guess it's better if we follow suit
than being incompatible....

Satoshi



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