Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 02:54:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Undefined symbol "___error" Message-ID: <199805150254.TAA18419@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199805141626.JAA21297@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at May 14, 98 09:26:07 am
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> In article <199805141009.GAA00344@hda.hda.com>, > Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> wrote: > > > The choices are bump all major numbers when compiling against the > > new header (the correct but inconvenient solution since the change > > is semi-hidden) or some hack in ld.so, e.g., ld.so looks for > > lib__error.so.1.0 for undefined symbols with two leading underscores. > > Ick! Hacks like that are practically impossible to get rid of > again, ever. I think I have a better hack, and it's self-eliminating with ELF. See my other posting. One might even decide to encapsulate it with a manifest constant test that goes in make.conf and disappears when the other libraries major numbers go up at release time (or at the ELF switchover). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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