Subject: Re: .so versions
To: David Forbes <david@flossy.u-net.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 03/01/1999 11:01:23
	I would definitely have expected for it to find and use the 4.4
	library (matching major number first).
	
	(Cross posting this to tech-toolchain in case anyone there has
	more coherent thoughts on this)

		David/absolute

	"Shall I be tempted by the devil thus?"
	"Yes, if the devil tempt you to do good..."

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, David Forbes wrote:

> Having just brought my CATS machine up to -current, I'm getting the
> following message, when I run ssh:
> 
> crowley:guest$ ssh 
> /usr/libexec/ld.so: warning: libutil.so.5.0: minor version >= 4 expected,
> using it anyway
> 
> Now this ssh binary was built against libutil.so.4.4 (which is still
> present in /usr/lib).  It seems to be a bit anomalous that it's
> complaining about a different minor when the major version is different?
> 
> FWIW, ld.so is an old version, built on 15th Dec '98.  Is this just due to
> an old/dodgy version ld.so or is this normal behaviour?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David.
> 
>