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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