Subject: Re: bin/396: ld/ld.so (on hp300) pay too much attention to shared library minor numbers
To: J.T. Conklin <jconklin@netcom.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/09/1994 21:24:12
> I hope this is the case.  On a slightly related subject, I'd really like a
> method to control (or at least contain) the major number explosion. 
> Wouldn't it be great if netbsd 1.1 could go out the door with a C library
> with major number 13 instead of 26? 

I think the majority of libc changes are now behind us -- basically,
the biggest hit was updating to quad off_t's and the 4.4 kernel includes.

We'll probably get another minor hit when upgrading the rest of
user-land to Lite, but it shouldn't be nearly so bad.

In general, i don't think that we should be changing things in libc
too often...  8-)


chris

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