Re: Status of the new glibc
On 19 Jan 1998, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
> Is there any reason not to change the soname, if it's that
> incompatible?
It's not incompatible with glibc-2.0; it is with older pre-2.1
libraries.
> it's going to be *hard* to upgrade if we have to
> basically redo the last month worth of bootstrapping from scratch. If
> we can use a new soname, I can deal with moving forward with this
> release... but if we can't do that, or the equivalent, I'd have to
> recommand *not* using this libc release until it does change enough
> (and stabilize) that an soname change gets made.
H.J. Lu says it won't change that way again... I hope he'll
be right.
Note: I think all the programs will still work. They will
only display 2 warnings when executing them. If you want, that
warnings can be avoided...
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Juan Cespedes
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