Re: NMU's for glibc 2.1.94
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:02:04AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 07:38:01PM -0400 , Ben Collins wrote:
> > > It sounds like the new glibc/libdb2 should not claim to be compatible
> > > with the previous versions...
> >
> > You haven't been reading. There is NO db2 in glibc, nor db1 nor any db of
> > any kind and longer. This is the problem becuase hundreds of things are
> > compiled against it from 2.1.[0123]. Now, for 95% of packages, simply using
> > the libdb2 package without recompile is just fine.
> >
> > However, somethings in glibc's OLD db libs were versioned symbols. Well,
> > libdb2 does not use symbol versioning, and thus it breaks. Most of the
>
> so, couldn't we just patch the libdb2 to have those needed symbols also
> vesioned? They wouldn't be used when compiling, but only to satisfy the
> linker (dunno if it's possible and how hard that would be).
Be my guest :)
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