I just came up with a script to get a list of all old libraries -- anybody
care to comment on it? It seems to work for me..

Thanks,
Jared



#!/bin/sh
# Get old system libraries and biff them to stdout
# Copyright (C) 2001 Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>

DIRS=/usr/lib

for dir in $DIRS; do
	cd $dir
	alllibs=`ls *.so.*.* | cut -d . -f 1 | uniq`
	for chklib in $alllibs; do
		availlibs=`ls $chklib.so.*.*`

		# ugh; get latest library
		major=0
		minor=0
		for x in $availlibs; do
			majortmp=`echo $x | cut -d . -f 3`
			if [ "$majortmp" -gt "$major" ]; then
				major=$majortmp
			fi
		done
		availlibs=`ls $chklib.so.$major.*`
		for x in $availlibs; do
			minortmp=`echo $x | cut -d . -f 4`
			if [ "$minortmp" -gt "$minor" ]; then
				minor=$minortmp
			fi
		done
		keepme="$chklib.so.$major.$minor"

		# Spew everything not needed to stdout
		availlibs=`ls $chklib.so.*.*`
		for x in $availlibs; do
			if [ ! "$x" = "$keepme" ]; then
				echo $x
			fi
		done
	done
done