Shared Library version numbers

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hello,

I try to create a libdb.so.2 compat add-on for glibc 2.1, for 
binary backward compatibility with glibc 2.0.

The problem is, I could not use the shlib-versions file, because it
would be conflict with the libdb.so.3.

Hardcoding the version number in the Makefile with libdb.so-version=
is also not possible, because we have different numbers on ix86 and
alpha.
A solution would be nice, so that Distributors could add the old
libdb and libnss_* modules from glibc 2.0 to glibc 2.1 for
compatibility reasons. The NSS modules are necessary for static linked
programs like rpm.

Any Ideas ? Or should I create more then one add-on, with the only 
difference in the various version numbers for different platforms ?

  Thorsten

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