elf32-mips breaks binary compatibility

[Ralf Baechle]

On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:12:25PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:

> We had to deal with it on Alpha. That is why glibc 2.1 is libc.so.6.1
> on alpha. Why cannot MIPS do the same? Glibc can require certain
> version of binutils and use libc.so.6.1 for soname on MIPS.

Using some detection mechanism in the dynamic linker allows me to
arbitrarily mix both flavours of binaries.  Especially we'll never have
to have two copies of libc in memory is it might be necessary with
a new major number.

  Ralf