Re: LSB wrapper library

[Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>]

Or use glibc 2.X.Y (2.X.Y > 2.2.2) in /lib/lsb.  If there is a change
in glibc that would break backwards compatibility (older applications,
including LSB applications, not running on newer glibc), it's a bug in
glibc.

Matt

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:54:35PM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 
> This is not the problem. Even if we can filter out ld-linux.so.2,
> it must not work.
> Assume:
> /lib/ld-lsb.so.1 is from glibc 2.2.2
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is from glibc 2.X.Y (2.X.Y > 2.2.2)
> 
> Now, which libc.so.6 will you use ?
> /lib/lsb/libc.so.6 ? What happens if libreadline is compiled against
>                      glibc 2.X.Y and uses newer versions of functions ?
> /lib/libc.so.6 ? This will not work, since /lib/ld-lsb.so.1 is to old for
>                  for /lib/libc.so.6.
> 
> So, the only solution is to recompile and link libreadline against
> glibc 2.2.2/ld-lsb.so.1 in this example -> we need to do this with
> every LSB library.