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Date:      Mon, 09 Feb 1998 12:15:38 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/csu/i386 Makefile crt0.c dladdr.3 dlopen.3 src/lib/libc/gen dladdr.3 dlfcn.c dlopen.3 Makefile.inc 
Message-ID:  <199802092015.MAA04160@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 12:08:53 PST." <199802092008.MAA04144@austin.polstra.com> 

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> > >   Compatibility note:  Programs which use dlopen, if compiled on
> > >   systems with this change, will not run on systems with a libc
> > >   from prior to this change.  Very few programs use dlopen, so I
> > >   think that is OK.
> >
> > Like, ah, Netscape, for example?
> 
> No.  Read it again.  You can't take a dlopen-using program _built_
> on the new system and run it on the _old_ system.  The Netscape
> binaries available currently couldn't possibly have been built on
> the new system.  It didn't exist yet when they were created.

You are presuming there won't be any new Netscape binaries?

However, I think I follow your reasoning insofar as the issue is 
related to the libc major versions, which are different.  (Modulo 
pre-change 3.0 libraries).

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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