From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 19:24:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B48CE37B416 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 17139 invoked by uid 100); 23 Nov 2001 03:24:06 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15357.49494.507583.996052@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:24:06 -0600 To: Kris Kennaway , Dmitry Mottl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dynamic loaders In-Reply-To: <24792934@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway types: > > Why compat20,compat21,compat22 of FreeBSD distributive > > have their own /usr/libexec/ld.so? > Because they presumably were different, and you need them to run > binaries built on those version. To be a bit more explicit, the version numbering scheme changed between FreeBSD 2 and FreeBSD 3. In version two, FreeBSD 2.x.y was a release, like FreeBSD 3.x and FreeBSD 4.x. I don't know if there were ever point releases like 3.5.1 for 2.x.y, but they would have been 2.x.y.z. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message