Re: Hint for the special *.so.lsb* linker?
- To: Ralf Flaxa <rf@caldera.de>
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- Subject: Re: Hint for the special *.so.lsb* linker?
- From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:58:42 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 38FE3A22.E50A8ED6@transmeta.com>
- References: <[🔎] 20000420005413.A13947@lst.de>
Ralf Flaxa wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I remember HPA mentionning during our New York meeting that
> it would be quite easy to build a special linker for the LSB
> build system that would create the special *.so.lsb* SONAME.
>
> So I thought I ask HPA and the people on this list again for a hint,
> because I am now at the point where I now have a set of sources for
> a sample implementation that I would like to self-host with such a
> special linker in oder to generate the requested libraries.
>
> I nobody knows we will try to figure that out from the sources,
> but the binutils is one of the more complex packages, so I wanted
> to ask first ;-)
>
In fact, the reason to keep the .so. in the name was so we wouldn't have
to modify ldconfig; I don't know of any tools which should need to be
modified.
-hpa
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