Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 06:13:12PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> 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.
What exactly went wrong? libpipeline uses libtool and I've never had to
patch it for libc6.1.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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