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- From: bjl@loki.research.ptt.nl (Ben Lippolt)
- Subject: Re: Linux 0.97p2 compatibility
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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:24:56 GMT
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- genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes:
-
-
- >It seems the problem was that the GCC 2.2.2d that comes as images
- >Comp1 and comp2 are not compatible with the older versions of
- >GCC 2.2.2 --> everything that was compiled before using
- >the shared libraries must be recompiled. If I'm right so
- >far, then all the binaries of programs at ftp sites are
- >useless until a newer version is recompiled?
-
- You can have several shared libraries simultaniously in /lib.
- My /lib looks like:
-
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 455684 Jul 25 20:31 libX11.1.1
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 451588 May 30 21:57 libX11_v1_0
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 140292 Jul 25 20:31 libXaw.1.1
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 136196 May 30 21:57 libXaw_v1_0
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 173060 Jun 28 22:50 libc.2.2.2
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 209924 Aug 16 19:41 libc.so.2
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 13316 Jun 28 23:10 libm.2.2.2
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 21508 Aug 16 19:41 libm.so.2
-
- So, I have the 2.2.2 *and* the 2.2.2d versions.
- I hoped that with the new shared libs with jump tables you could update
- the shared libs and older programs would automatically use these new
- libs. But I've read that libc.so.3 (or 4?) is not compatible with
- libc.so.2. So, you'll have to recompile at least once more when libc.so.3
- comes out (or keep your old libraries around). I hope that will be the
- last (incompatible) update of the libraries for at least some time.
-
-
- Ben Lippolt.
-