Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:18:01 +0100 From: <gwk@rahn-koltermann.de> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: 5.2 compatibility with 5.1? Message-ID: <27942123$10714827473fdd877bd4aec6.12214738@config16.schlund.de>
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Hi, I installed 5.2-RC1 and wanted to run my Emacs binary from the 5.1 system. However, 5.2-RC1 has libutil.so.4 while 5.1 had libutil.so.3. This was of course easy to workaround by symlinking libutil.so.3 from 5.1 into 5.2-RC1. More serious seems the following problem: Sometimes when sending Email from Evolution built on 5.1, running on 5.2-RC1, Evolution crashes with an undefined reference from libc_r: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/evolution/1.4/libeutil.so.0: Undefined symbol "gethostbyaddr_r" Indeed gethostbyaddr_r seems to be present in libc.so on 5.1, but not any more in 5.2-RC1. I thought minor number upgrades would have compatible libs? Do we need a compat51 package? If libc was modified in an incompatible way, shouldn't we bump the version number? -- Regards, Georg.
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