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Re: the installing-over-2.0 bug


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.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"
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