Re: ldconfig

Sebastian Benoit (Benoit@pprz02.hrz.Uni-Marburg.DE)
Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:27:20 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 ian@greywolf.mail.net wrote:
> Andrew Pollard writes:
> I found another bug with ldconfig v1.8.5. It seems that when you link some
> libraries (or try to redo the cache file), it outputs the following:
>
> libforms.so.0.81 => libforms.so.0.81
>
> This, of course, is completely wrong. It should output:
>
> libforms.so.0 => libforms.so.0.81
>
> (This is just an example, its actually occuring with this and other libraries
> in the form .so.3.x and .so.2.x too.) That means, the "major version" link
> never gets created and loaded in the cache, and programs that are looking for
> that "major version" link can't load the library, and fail to run.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ian

THIS is a real problem, and the reason I'm not using 1.8.5 !
It seems to be a 'feature' of ld.so 1.8.5 ... :(


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