On 09 Feb 1999 11:54:21 -0700 
 Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu> wrote:

 > Is there any reason we can't simply increment the major version number
 > of every shared library?  Any new programs that are compiled will find
 > the new (ELF) library, to match their own ELF formats (because the
 > compiler will have been changed at that point).  I guess we'll need to
 > have an a.out ld.so and an ELF ld_elf.so, so that a.out
 > dynamically-linked binaries can still load the right ld.so.

This is what Linux did (and FreeBSD, too, I think) and it caused no end
of trouble.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>