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Re: Bug#42236: shlibs without a version (was Re: weekly policy summary)



On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 07:11:57PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > First, this is horrible and abhorrent, and unversioned libraries shouldn't
> > ever happen, and other packages shouldn't start depending on them and
> > icky icky icky icky ewww.
> 
> Maybe I'm just being simple, but couldn't one simply modify the binary to
> include a soname? Isn't it just a section/field in the ELF structure and
> entirely settable after compilation?

hex editing ELF's with perl hacks (sed won't cut it) is EVIL!  I actually
am setting this up for LD_PRELOAD, but still I need dpkg-shlibdeps not to
die and abort building of the package just because it doesn't know how to
handle an unversioned shlib.

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