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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:15:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        gene@nttlabs.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF transition for ports
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809151513210.221-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199809152103.OAA01755@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  * Does this mean that from now on the version number of such Elf shared
>  * libraries will be always be higher by one?  For example, if the original
>  * library version goes from 6.4 to 7.0 -- say it's X11R7 :-) -- then will
>  * the FreeBSD Elf version be 8 since we are using 7 for 6.4?
> 
> It might or might not.  Actually, the same thing will happen if the
> original version goes from 6.4 to 6.5, ours will be at version 8.

That seems _really_ bogus.  Pray tell, what's wrong with using two version
numbers and ELF libs?

If the lib is compiled with -Wl,-soname -Wl,libfoo.so.x

and installed like

libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.x
libfoo.so.x -> libfoo.so.x.y

This would preserve the a.out functionality no?

And then perhaps, ldconfig could scan each directory, look for an ELF or
a.out header, and otherwise throw the library out... thus preventing the
ability to load junk files into the cache.. hmm.

- alex

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