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Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?



Hi Colin,

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 06:48:43PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> > 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.

Libtool computes the version number in the SONAME of the newly generated
library, so it must be a single integer. There is no way to force it to use
anything else.

That is not a problem for using libtool to link against a library that by
some other method got a SONAME that doesn't follow the conventions.

   Simon


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