question about upgrading

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:39:57PM -0800, cg@cragalaska.com wrote:
> /usr/lib/libbfd-2.14.90.0.5.so
> /usr/lib/libopcodes-2.14.90.0.5.so 
> 
> I'm about to update to the latest release of binutils, how do I create these 
> two files but with the 2.16.1.so suffix(or whatever it may make)?

These will be created if you configure with --enable-shared.  If you
don't use --enable-shared, then the new shared libs are not needed.

> Will these new files replace/accompany the previous two? 
> I'm thinking accompany.

Definitely.  No attempt is made to keep libbfd.so backwards compatible,
so if you replace libbfd.so, you will need to recompile everything that
uses it.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre