On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 21:27:55 -0500 
 Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> wrote:

 >   Why didn't we bump libc version and remove all the renames' when 
 > we switched from aout to elf? Aren't the library formats different? 

What port switched from a.out to ELF?

 >   Or do I not understand something?

When you bump the libc major, you have to bump the major of every other
shlib that makes calls into libc.  It's a game we'd rather not play right
now, as we have better things to be doing at the moment.

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