On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:56:33PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For those bitten by The Great Glibc Update of 2000, welcome to our annual > > ritual. Please stay tuned during the next few months where we install a new > > gcc. This will be followed by self inflicted pain of stricter C++ syntax, > > macro collisions, binary incompatability and general chaos among kernel > > builds[1]. Thank you for your patronage, and please come again[2]. > > It's still the case that binaries compiled on woody or RedHat 7 will crash > randomly on potato or Redhat 6? If so in the current system that still > requires changing the soname but of course that's a losing battle, right? > > Hmph, I wonder if ld.so/ld could be patched to have a list of sonames provided > by a library for run-time but a single one to use for compile-time linking. > > That way glibc2.2 could provide sonames 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 for run-time linking > but when programs are compiled against it they would record 2.2 as the version > they should be linked with. > > That seems like it would fix the binary incompatibility problems that glibc is > introducing in linux recently.
I'd think you could just do this with symlinks - the problem is that you'd need to change the soname away from libc6, which is a whole world of chaos. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
