Yet another versioning anomaly

Roland McGrath roland@frob.com
Mon Jan 12 17:55:00 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.

SunOS 4 does not use ELF, so I do not see how it is relevant whatsoever.



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