Re: Once again: libc6 packages compatibility etc...

[Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>]

Yann Dirson <dwitch@monge.univ-mlv.fr> writes:

> $ ldd /lib/libdb-2.0.4.so 
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40010000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)
> $ ldd /lib/libext2fs.so.2
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4001a000)
>         libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x400d6000)
> 
> How should I interpret that ?  I don't know whether this is a sure
> way of finding out, but at list in some cases, it can show valid
> results !

That is a sure way of finding out.  Another way is with `ldconfig -p'.
Any library which comes up as type ELF (not ELF-libc5 or ELF-libc6)
and has the same soname as its libc5/6 analogue is broken.

For example, my system has the following broken libraries:

libtix.so.4.1, libpaper.so.1, libgmp.so.2, libX11.  (Mark already
knows about the problem with xlib6).  ldd reports them as statically
linked.


Guy


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