Re: New libc6 breaks exim?
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:21:06AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:31:24PM -0400 , Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 07:50:47PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > Furthermore, I think we must follow whatever RedHat has done here, or
> > > > bully them into adding versioning.. If our libdb.* libraries do not have
> > > > the same symbols as theirs do then we have lost inter-dist binary
> > > > compatibility.
> > >
> > > Well I think following redhat's lead no matter how broken is a very bad
> > > path to go down. Raise a stink instead.
> >
> > Redhat does neither of the things suggested. Instead, they have a
>
> it uses glibc-2.1.3 db2. So you can say, they've added symbols to db2
No, *they* didn't, glibc did.
> > compat-lib package that basically copies around the old RH 6.2
> > libdb.so.[23]. IOW, they aren't compiling it anymore. They are copying it.
>
> db2 package doesn't look like only a compatibility lib
db2 isn't, but the libdb.so.[23] libs are compatibility.
> > With our policy, we can't do anything like this.
>
> there is source for it in the redhat archive, so it can be recompiled, I'd
> think.
>
> Petr Cech
> P.S. their ldconfig doesn't segfault on me
Now does ours for me. Remember something, RH is using the mainline
(unreleased) GCC aswell. I really can't believe that they even released
RH7 using a pre glibc AND gcc. This will probably end up biting *us* in the
ass though :/
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