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Re: Plans for ABI migration
- To: bernie at codewiz dot org
- Subject: Re: Plans for ABI migration
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: 09 Jan 2001 21:48:52 +0100
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <01010921385201.28923@beetle>
>>>>> Bernardo Innocenti writes:
> Following the example of the libc5 -> glibc migration,
> perhaps it would be possible to let ld.so distingish
> programs compiled by g++ 3.0 from older versions and use
> a different library path in this case. Something like this
> could go in /etc/ld.so.conf:
> /usr/lib=gcc3
> /usr/i686-linux-gcc2/lib=gcc3
> /usr/local/lib
> ...
That would require changes in the dynamic linker and ldconfig - and
therefore changes in glibc. And I don't see how the dynamic linker
could recognize those libraries at all in a secure way (there might be
some hacks but nothing that works all the time).
Andreas
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