home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!convex!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!think.com!barmar
- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Sun use version numbers in libraries?
- Date: 28 Aug 1992 17:08:16 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
- Lines: 19
- Distribution: comp
- Message-ID: <17lmi0INN7mj@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <THOMAS.TORNBLOM.92Aug28110817@beck.nexus.comm.se>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com
-
- In article <THOMAS.TORNBLOM.92Aug28110817@beck.nexus.comm.se> Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes:
- >I've just installed the libc jumbo patch, 100532-2, and I can't figure
- >out why Sun doesn't use the ability to have different versions of the
- >same shared library active simultaneously.
-
- Probably because different customers install different patches in different
- orders, so they can't simply specify a particular version number in the
- instructions.
-
- >This patch replaces the old libc (v 1.7) with a new one with the same
- >major/minor version number.
-
- We ignored the instructions, and named the new libc 1.7.1. This avoids
- future conflicts when Sun comes out with their own 1.8.
- --
- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
-
- barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
-