Re: IMPORTANT - Is your libc6 library broken?

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> This paragraph, from libc6-migration.text.gz is VERY IMPORTANT!

:)

> 
>    Libraries (regardless of which library they're compiled against) need
>    to have runtime dependencies on one of libc, libdl or libm to enable
>    the shared linker to determine which library to use for a binary.
>    These runtime dependencies are _NOT_ dependencies in the Debian
>    way, but dependencies generated by the linker when generating the
>    shared library. See the binutils manual for more information.

Do I remember someone recently posting a problem about this 
(a package he tried to compile) on debian-devel?

 
> Any library which does not have a runtime dependency and uses the same
> soname for libc5 and libc6 versions will make ld.so do the wrong
> thing.

Oh, to the other debian-developpers: 
note that you make your .so libaries have a run-time dependancy
on a specific version of libc5 by adding "-lc" to gcc's commandline
in the final link stage.



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joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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