Yet another versioning anomaly

Nick Ing-Simmons nik@tiuk.ti.com
Mon Jan 12 03:48:00 GMT 1998


Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
>> I guess we should add -lc to -shared for glibc 2. But I am not
>> sure if all the systems support it. I think ld.so in libc 5 may
>> not be happy with it.
>
>That doesn't make any sense.  Redundant dependencies happen all the time;
>it would be impressively lossy if ld.so couldn't handle this.

Agreed. But SunOS4's ld.so is 'impressively lossy' in this manner.
SunOS5 (aka Solaris) however is fine.

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.





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