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Re: the installing-over-2.0 bug
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Re: the installing-over-2.0 bug
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: 29 May 1998 10:35:31 +0200
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- References: <199805271404.KAA19503@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:
|> As I understand it the problem is that ld-linux.so.2 and libc.so.6 are
|> interdependent, so if one is from 2.0 and the other is from 2.1, you lose.
It's only a problem if ld.so is older than libc.so. ld.so is self
contained, and its 2.1 interface should be backward compatible with 2.0.
|> Are these the only libraries like that, or is libdl affected also?
I's probably the same, ie. libdl.so must not be newer than ld.so.
Andreas.
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