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On Mon, 11 May 1998, Travis Shirk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I saw a message of your on the java-linux mailling list, and
> have run into the same problem regarding talk. You say that
> you reverted to libm.5.0.6 and everything worked. Couple
> of questions about that:
>
> Did you change /usr/lib/libm.so to point to /lib/libm.so.5.0.6?
> If so, what does that do for libc.so? Does'nt it need the
> newer version of libm.so in order to work correctly.
First of all, assume that I don't know much of what I'm talking about :).
When I upgraded libc to 5.4.44, libm 5.0.9 came along with it. So when I
reverted to 5.4.33 (which Steve Byrne says is just fine, BTW), I also had
to revert to libm 5.0.6. In /lib there were both 5.0.9 and 5.0.6;
libm.so.5 was a symbolic link pointing to 5.0.9. I just relinked it to
5.0.6, renamed 5.0.9 to xlibm509 or something, and reran ldconfig. And it
all started to work again!
>
> If talk won't work with libm.so.5.0.9 then essentially I can
> never upgrade my libm if I want to continue using talk. Is
> there a way to make talk use a particular version of libm,
> while the standard libm is a sym link to the most current
> version?
I'm sure that if you pull down the sources and recompile talk, it will
work. I did not try that.
>
> The release notes for libc.5.4.44 say that it is backward
> compatible with previous versions of libc. Obvously this
> is not the case for the talk program.
>
Well, libm seemed to be the problem, not libc.
> When I upgraded my libc it must have wiped out libm.so.5.0.6,
> because I can't find it anywhere. COuld you possibly send
> me yours? Assuming that you are running intel Linux, of course.
>
Sure. Attached.
> Lastly, how did you find out that reverting your libm to 5.0.6
> would fix the problem. I'd like to be able to detect this myself
> next time ;-).
>
After much head scratching, I decided that that was the only thing left to
try!
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