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Date:      Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:22:36 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
Cc:        Phil Gilley <pgilley@metronet.com>, jkh@freebsd.org, Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu>, bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1.6.1 uname(1) command 
Message-ID:  <845.849410556@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Dec 1996 10:52:47 %2B0800." <199612010252.KAA02466@spinner.DIALix.COM> 

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> Uh oh.. This looks like the compat21 dist might be spamming libc.so.2.2
> from 2.1.6.1 with an older copy of libc.so.2.2 from an earlier release. :-(

Bleah, now you know why I've always hated the compat* libraries. :-(

If this turns out to be the case, I guess we can at least fix the one
on ftp.freebsd.org.

As for myself, I'm about 10 minutes away from simply discontinuing the
compat* libraries altogether.  They're an enormous pain in the butt
and nobody who actually uses them seems motivated to also make sure
they're done correctly (and I don't use them myself!), making them
more harmful than helpful.  I thought checking them into the source
tree so that anyone could potentially check and fix the buggers would
help, but I guess I was wrong.

					Jordan



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