Bug#2414: lib/libc.so missing

[Nikhil Nair <nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Michael Meskes writes ("Re: Bug#2414: /lib/libc.so missing"):
> > Ian Jackson writes:
> > > Package: libc5
> > > Version: 5.2.18-1
> > >
> > > -root@chiark:/lib> ll libc.so*
> > > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           26 Jul 20  1995 libc.so.2 -> ../usr/local/lib/libc.so.2*
> > > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           28 Jul 20  1995 libc.so.2.2 -> ../usr/local/lib/libc.so.2.2*
> > > [...]
> > > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       535804 Dec 15 19:41 libc.so.5.2.18*
> > > -root@chiark:/lib> ln -sf libc.so.5 libc.so
> >
> > No, that's not correct. The correct place for libc.so is /usr/lib. Check
> > there and you'll see that the libc5-dev package has the link. BTW it really
> > belongs into the dev-package, because you only need it for developing.
>
> No, I don't have the link in /usr/lib either (as I said, the lack of
> the `libc.so' link caused a program I compiled to be linked
> statically).

Hmm ... on amasis.trin.cam.ac.uk:

$ ls -l /usr/lib/libc.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           24 Jan 15 22:32 /usr/lib/libc.so
-> ../../lib/libc.so.5.2.18
$ dpkg --list 'libc5*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name         Version   Rev  Description
+++-============-=========-====-===============================================
ii  libc5           5.2.18 1    The Linux C library version 5 (run-time librari
ii  libc5-dev       5.2.18 1    The Linux C library version 5 (development file

Nikhil.