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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ldconfig ldconfig.c 
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:38:48 -0800
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>  * But that's not the case, it -never- worked properly, ldconfig just
>  * barfed if it found a dot before the .so.
> 
> So what's wrong with taking out the dot like in tcl74/tk40?

Because that is NOT the standard of the port.  To change it involved a LOT
of code (I wrote all the diffs to do this the first time),  but our previous
behavior is a -bug-.
> 
>  * 					     In any case, I think
>  * using libfoo<n>.so.n.n is much more portable among various unix
>  * flavors.
> 
> Well then we didn't need this change anyway. :)

Not if n is dotted, which was the case here. :-)
> 
> Satoshi