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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:29:02 -0800
From:      Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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:  <199602262229.OAA18049@precipice.shockwave.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:13:50 PST." <199602262113.NAA04089@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> 

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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

But that's not the case, it -never- worked properly, ldconfig just barfed
if it found a dot before the .so.  In any case, I think using libfoo<n>.so.n.n
is much more portable among various unix flavors.




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