Buddha Buck <bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu> writes: > does it know that libc5 and libc6 are incompatable versions of the > same library (different sonames), or does it feel that loading two > libraries (libfoo, libc6) is better than loading three (libfoo, > libc5, libc6). It recognizes libc, libm, and libdl in special code. That is why every shared library must be linked against at least one of those. Guy