Lupe Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday, 2001-04-20 at 14:14:13 -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:12:42AM -0600, Tim Uckun wrote:
> > > Shared libraries may have been a good idea but somehow the
> > > implementation in both windows and linux got all weird. I just
> > > did a search for *.dll on my windows 2K system and it came back
> > > with 4,303 files.
>
> I thought Linux supports versioning for shared libraries. Forgive me
> for being a Solaris weenie, but I can't understand why you can't
> have several versions of one shared library. Or can you in *Linux*,
> but the Debian packaging breaks this?
Huh ?
ls -l /lib/libncurses.so.*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 8 16:04 /lib/libncurses.so.4 ->
libncurses.so.4.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238700 Mar 5 2000 /lib/libncurses.so.4.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 26 20:38 /lib/libncurses.so.5 ->
libncurses.so.5.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233816 Nov 21 19:55 /lib/libncurses.so.5.0
> In Solaris, you have major version numvers for incompatible changes,
> and minor versions numbers for fixes. Most libraries only use the
> major version number.
Same in Debian...
> Well, can you have two versions of libc?
You could, but glibc (>=2.1) provides versionned symbols and in
theory the soname will never have to change again :-)
Phil.
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