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glibc 2.1 soname on PPC
- To: libc-hacker@cygnus.com (GNU C Library)
- Subject: glibc 2.1 soname on PPC
- From: hjl@varesearch.com (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:13:33 -0800 (PST)
Hi,
We have a PPC running RedHat 5.0 based on glibc 1.99. It uses libc.so.6,
ld.so.1, ... as sonames. I am horrified to find out glibc 2.1 doesn't
change soname on PPC, but it has a different ABI from glibc 1.99. As
the result, I cannot install glibc 2.1 over a glibc 1.99 system on
PPC. May I ask why we have done this?
On alpha, we have the same problem. We solve it by change sonames
to 6.1 from 6 and etc. Can we do the same for PPC? I can provide
a patch if necessary.
Thanks.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)