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Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?



On Feb 04, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:

> Well, I guess such a new (conditinally selectable) name could be
> coordinated with glibc upstream? Say bump 32-bit ports to use libc6.1?
> (We already have precedent in some ports that do not use the same
> prevalent SONAME, such as libc6.1, libc0.1 and libc0.1.) But it would
> indeed involve lots of work, with massive amounts of package renames. :/
This may be a good time to mention that SONAMEs like libc6.1 are not 
supported by libtool, so in libxcrypt I had to conditionally patch the 
generated libtool executable for the architectures that did this.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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