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Re: Which libc should we use in the future?

> Maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill here, but to me that seems
> really unimpressive - it amounts to a complete lack of backward
> compatibility of any executable built with this library, doesn't it?  I
> thought the whole idea of dynamic linking was that the library could
> change without recompiling the binaries ...

This will work, but only with minor revisions to the library.  Major
revisions (hence the change of the first number of the version) usually
mean a significantly different interface and thus cannot be a "drop in"
replacement.  "libc5" could not be a drop-in replacement for "libc4"
because the former was ELF and the latter was A.OUT.  There may have
been other changes, too, though.

However, there is no reason why we can't have libc4, libc5, and libc6 all
exist together and an executable just uses whichever it was originally
linked against.  Usually you can only have one "libc-dev" package, though,
and so packages will progress towards the latest as time marches on.
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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