> > If upstream aren't inclined to change their Linux soname for the new gcc, > though, not changing our soname but doing the upgrade anyway seems the > best option. > even if some are willing not all will be. Then we have to worry about dead upstreams too. It seems like changing the sonames to solve this simply won't work. I had forgotten we solved the libc5 issue by moving the libs to a new directory and making ld.so look there. Been a while (-: