Re: glibc 2.1 broke a couple of things.
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 07:10:20PM +0000, Edward Betts wrote:
> It was a complete hack to get libc5 and libc6 running on the same machine.
> The dynamic linker ldso was fixed so it would `do the right thing', e.g. make
> an educated guess about which library to use. Granted it almost always gets it
> right, but it is still a hack.
It's only a hack that ld.so can do this without new sonames for the libraries;
otherwise this is normal behaviour.
Hamish
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