Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...)

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:44:53PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> "David O'Brien" wrote:
> > Actually going from libc.so.500 to libc.so.{x<500} is easy.
> > Copy libc.so.500 into /usr/lib/compat.  When the libc.so link is made to
> > libc.so.{x<500}, that is the lib version number that will get burned into
> > objects.  After the first `make world', rm /usr/lib/libc.so.500.
> 
> There is no need to rm /usr/lib/libc.so.500 - once a new libc is installed,

The need is a clean, uncluttered /usr/lib/


> and the symlink points to it, then libc.so.500 will *never* get linked
> against.

Yes, I know. :-)   But it is true that I didn't state that to make sure
others did.

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-- David  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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